Alice Drinkwater reflects on the story of Eunice Newton Foote, the unrecognised climate change pioneer who did not have the right to vote, let alone an equal voice to male scientists at the time of her discoveries in the 1850s.
Tag: history
Reflections on the history of radiocarbon dating
Alice Spaccasassi explores what the history of radiocarbon dating can teach us about how we celebrate and remember scientific discoveries....
Growing evidence for climate change that sparked dawn of dinosaurs
Image credit: Enrique Lopez Garre, Pixabay. During the Carnian Stage in the late Triassic Period, around 237 to 227 million...
What can we learn from ye olde medicine?
Ellie Bennett explores how answers to the global problem of antimicrobial resistance, a decidedly modern phenomenon, may lie in the...
Myth-busting the Golden Ratio
The Golden Ratio is widely praised for its aesthetic beauty: has its significance been blown out of proportion? Plant exhibiting...
How old is HIV? The United Kingdom and HIV/AIDS research
Photo Credit: NIAID via Wikimedia Commons The discovery of a viral cause for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in 1983 by...