While theories and counter-theories flew, two Irish scientists, one of them a renowned physicist named John Joly and the other a young botanist named Henry Dixon, decided to test the strength of a ...

The book's release came at a time when many people saw science and a belief in religion and the supernatural as being at odds with each another. Many felt they had to choose between the two.

For those physicians that did try the operation, outcomes were generally not promising—until the end of the nineteenth century a patient under-going a caesarean section faced almost certain death.

Not all lives were seen as worthy of these men's care, however. Men of science and medicine may have fostered life for many, but they also let others die. In "Becoming Object," I track how they ...

A skeleton of a man with a thick beard and moustache dressed in a late 19th century military uniform with epaulettes was found in the coffin earlier ANKARA, May 22. /TASS/. Russian scientists have ...

The book's release came at a time when many people saw science and a belief in religion and the supernatural as being at odds with each another. Many felt they had to choose between the two.