Lady Mary Montagu's Smallpox Experiment

Philip Ball tells the story of Alexis Carrel, the French surgeon who worked to preserve life outside the body and create an immortal chicken heart in a dish. His quest was to renew ageing flesh, repair and rebuild our bodies and keep them healthy far beyond the usual human lifesp ...  Afficher plus

Philip Ball's story is of Ibn al-Haytham, the first scientist, and his book of optics that defined how we see. 

Catherine’s family believed in alternative medicine and she grew up in relatively poor, fringe communities that didn’t have much to do with mainstream science or Britain’s national health system. And when social media became a big part of her life, she started believing in all so ...  Afficher plus

Comment évaluer les porteurs sains du virus susceptibles de contaminer les autres sans même le savoir ? Une question cruciale depuis que la première porteuse saine de l’histoire a été identifiée aux États-Unis dans les années 1900, elle fut surnommée Mary Typhoïde. C’est son h ...

A maelstrom of misinformation and its sinister cousin, disinformation, have been swirling all around us about Covid-19. The rumours and conspiracy theories have raced around the globe as fast as the virus itself.Untruths, half-truths, misunderstandings and deliberate mischief-mak ...  Afficher plus

Mary Somerville was a self-taught genius who wrote best-selling books translating, explaining and drawing together different scientific fields and who was named the nineteenth century's "queen of science". Born Mary Fairfax in 1780, she was an unlikely scientific hero. Her parent ...  Afficher plus