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Science of Life in the Face of Death: E.K. Janaki Ammal in War-Torn Britain

Savithri Preetha Nair 04/11/2022

An excerpt from 'Chromosome Woman, Nomad Scientist', the first...

New Postage Stamp Honours Nuclear Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu

New Postage Stamp Honours Nuclear Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu

Xuejian Wu 20/02/2021

Chien-Shiung Wu’s experiments were instrumental in supporting some of...

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How a Wartime Disaster Led to the Invention of Chemotherapy

Mark Wolverton 03/11/2020

The history of chemotherapy is heavy with moral complexity...

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How NASA Worked Around Earth’s Radiation Belts to Land Apollo 11 on the Moon

Margarita Safonova 09/06/2019

Some people believe we never went to the Moon...

Bill Tutte

Remembering Bill Tutte: Another Brilliant Codebreaker From the Second World War

Graham Farr 15/05/2017

He was one of the brilliant mathematical geniuses who...