Walking into a doctor’s office, most of us feel that we are crossing into the domain of some manner of super being, an individual who has stared steadily into ...
By Julie Fleshman - Cancer. It’s a word that makes you go numb. In 1999, my father was diagnosed with cancer -- pancreatic cancer. The news was debilitating. P...
By Skylar Liberty Rose - During a recent visit with my doctor I referred to some issues I’d been having with my periods. I explained that over the past year th...
In 1970, everybody knew, or believed they did, how the flow of genetic information in a cell works. The Central Dogma of genetics dictated that DNA is transcr...
In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim ten million lives over the following decade as the g...
14-year-old Anika Chebrolu was just named the winner of the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge, an annual innovation competition hosted in partnership with...
Though we think of her as the Lady With the Lamp, tirelessly patrolling the sick wards of the Crimean War offering solace and healing to soldiers who had been ...
The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six women into the variousl...