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Boyle’s Monsters, 1665
By Sabrina Richards | May 1, 2012
From accounts of deformed animals to scratch-and-sniff technology, Robert Boyle’s early contributions to the Royal Society of London were prolific and wide ranging.
The World in a Cabinet, 1600s
By Sabrina Richards | April 1, 2012
A 17th century Danish doctor arranges a museum of natural history oddities in his own home.
The Subcellular World Revealed, 1945
By Cristina Luiggi | March 1, 2012
The first electron microscope to peer into an intact cell ushers in the new field of cell biology.
Botanical Blueprints, circa 1843
By Cristina Luiggi | February 1, 2012
Anna Atkins, pioneering female photographer, revolutionized scientific illustration using a newly invented photographic technique.
Before the Genes Jumped, 1930s
By Sabrina Richards | January 1, 2012
How Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock nearly gave up genetics for meteorology
The Hyena Den, discovered 1821
By Jef Akst | December 1, 2011
A 19th century geologist and minister investigates a prehistoric cave full of hyena bones in his native England.
The Human Genome Project,
Then and Now
By Walter F. Bodmer | October 1, 2011
An early advocate of the sequencing of the human genome reflects on his own predictions from 1986.
The Scientist, Inaugural Issue, 1986
By Jef Akst | October 1, 2011
Twenty-five years later, the magazine is still hitting many of the same key discussion points of science.
Animal Electricity, circa 1781
By Jessica P. Johnson | August 31, 2011
How an Italian scientist doing Frankenstein-like experiments on dead frogs discovered that the body is powered by electrical impulses.
Ernst Haeckel’s Pedigree of Man, 1874
By Hannah Waters | August 1, 2011
The 19th century naturalist crafted numerous real evolutionary trees that organized the overwhelming number of species on Earth.
