Marie Curie is probably the most famous woman scientist who has ever lived. Born Maria Sklodowska in Poland in 1867, she is famous for her work on radioactivity, and was twice a winner of the Nobel Prize.
Work gets a terrible press. Pick up the paper on any day and you'll read about how work is killing our marriages, generating stress, depriving children of 'quality time', hollowing out local communities, and depressing us.
In 1996, Dick Hudson, a professor of linguistics at University College London posted an email to a listserve for language scientists asking who held the world record for the number of languages they could speak.
A publishing craze that hit both America and England from the mid- to late nineteenth century attracted the readership of the semiliterate working class.
The computed tomography scanner, or CT scanner, was originally designed to provide cross-sectional images of the brain. The word tomography comes from the Greek word tomos, meaning "section," and graphia, meaning "picture."
It is dawn in the Andes. A grimy carpet of red dust stretches over rolling featureless hills towards a horizon dominated by the icy cone of Chile's Licancabur volcano.
Humans have long been fascinated by the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Novels, films, and folk tales have encouraged curiosity and speculation about what might be 'out there' in space.
With water guns, buckets, and even elephants dousing people with their trunks, pretty much everyone gets soaked during this Thai New Year festival. It's a symbolic fresh start, and a welcome respite from the heat!
Mountain climber Aron Ralston is trapped in an isolated canyon. Over the next five days, he examines his life and ends up amputating his own arm to free himself from the fallen boulder.
Michel Lotito (Monsieur Mangetout or Mr. Eats All) consumed metal and glass for over 30 years. Gastroenterologists checked out his digestive system and confirmed he can do it!
A parasite with a bloom over 3 feet (1 meter) across! For all its beauty, this endangered plant reeks like rotting flesh, attracting insects such as flies for pollination.
You see here the results of 150 years of work to produce a structurally correct and sound, docile in temperament, fertile in breeding and above all the ultimate beef machine.