Long before the women who helped win the space race were depicted in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” women were making contributions to science that far outpaced the credit they were given for their ...

Science, a field where it is often believed that Men do it all. The discoveries, the breakthrough inventions and other ...

Lauren Gunderson’s play “The Half-Life of Marie Curie” is based on the true friendship of European scientists Marie Curie and ...

Who nominates people for the Nobel Peace Prize? It's one of the five Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist and inventor.

For some children it’s dinosaurs, for others trains or mermaids. For me it was rocks. I can pinpoint the moment exactly. I ...

Farmers Market holds Kids Day Kids Day at the Cardiff Farmers Market starts at 10 a.m. Feb. 1 at 3333 Manchester Ave. The ...

The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used to come home glowing in the dark. Then they found that the exposure caused ...

Alan Turing laid the foundations of modern computing and played a critical role in breaking the Enigma code during World War II in 1941. Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, designed and flew the ...

Chagnoux was acting as representative of Madame Curie of France. Madame Curie had just won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for isolating the element radium from carnotite in 1898. She was the first ...

Judge Marie Quirke, who has died aged 60, has been hailed as a “visionary” judge who treated all those who came before her in the Dublin District Court with the same level of fairness ...