In her groundbreaking trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women. By Penelope Green Margaret W. Rossiter, a historian whose ...

PATRICIA FARA‘s epic history of science ranges from the astronomers of ancient Babylon to today’s geneticists and particle physicists. But it is no ordinary account of how scientific knowledge has ...

I WAS saddened to hear of the death last month of Harriet, the giant tortoise that Charles Darwin reputedly collected from the Galapagos Islands in 1835. She died in the Australia Zoo in Beerwah, ...