ScienceBrunch

No guest of honor today. Instead, we talk about some of the interesting happenings in the modern science world. And Kati... Read more

You may have never heard of him, but African-American chemist Percy Lavon Julian is the guy you should thank for your ho... Read more

Mary Agnes Chase struggled to begin her career in botany, so when she finally made the big time, she turned around to he... Read more

Botanist Carl Linnaeus had a noble goal: to create a new standardized system of naming all living creatures on the plane... Read more

Margaret Mead traveled the world to study and compare different cultures, in a quest to find out which parts of us are d... Read more

Richard Feynman was a brilliant theoretical physicist who won a Nobel Prize and inspired his younger sister to a career ... Read more

"Birdman of India" Sálim Ali spent nearly 80 years observing and documenting bird species in India, yet he still conside... Read more

Cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock proved chromosomal crossover in meiosis long before anyone in her field understood it.

Qian Xuesen is known as the father of China's missile and space program. He helped transform China into a world-class mi... Read more

Vera Rubin's observations of galaxy rotations showed that we can only actually see about 5% of the universe.