On the bicentennial of his birth, Edward Lear is celebrated for his whimsical poetry and his stunningly accurate scientific illustrations.
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A 17th century Danish doctor arranges a museum of natural history oddities in his own home.
Anna Atkins, pioneering female photographer, revolutionized scientific illustration using a newly invented photographic technique.
How Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock nearly gave up genetics for meteorology
An early advocate of the sequencing of the human genome reflects on his own predictions from 1986.
As epidemics swept across the United States in the 19th century, the US government recognized the pressing need for a national lab dedicated to the study of infectious disease. In 1887, the government set its sights on a small lab located in the Mari
William Helfand began buying medically themed collectibles in the 1950s when he started working for Merck & Co. Over his 30-year career with the company, Helfand amassed thousands of posters and other old marketing paraphernalia, which were commi
Seventeenth-century Tibet witnessed a blossoming of medical knowledge, including a set of 79 paintings, known as tangkas, that interweaved practical medical knowledge with Buddhist traditions and local lore.
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