How British anxiety about European advances created a scientific prize
Behind the Royal Society’s prestigious Royal Medals, whose 2017 winners were announced today, is a 200-year-old story of Britain’s fear of scientific decline in the face of international competition
Blood, Sweat and Ice? During the 60th anniversary of the IGY let's celebrate Antarctic physiology too.
The International Geophysical Year started on 1 July 1957 and was a massive international effort to study the entire planet; as scientists worked in the harsh conditions of Antarctica, a team of physiologists and doctors took this unique opportunity to study the body under stress.
Trump has a theory about exercise that would fit well in Victorian Britain
Donald Trump allegedly believes that exercise is bad because the body has a finite store of energy: exactly the logic used to warn 19th century women off education
Primodos was a revolutionary oral pregnancy test. But was it safe?
In the 1950s, laboratory pregnancy tests involved urine and a toad. Primodos was a breakthrough, but campaigners say there is evidence of serious side effects
On Ada Lovelace Day, let's also celebrate 19th-century renaissance woman Agnes Clerke
This annual celebration of women in science and technology is the perfect time to appreciate the brilliant Agnes Clerke: astronomer, writer and historian
Why women are asking a major art and technology festival to #KissMyArs
The Ars Electronica festival celebrates art, technology and society but consistently awards its top prizes to men – does the Art and Technology field have a gender problem?
Not on the map: cartographic omission from New England to Palestine
An emotional debate has erupted over the absence of Palestine on Google Maps. But why does it matter whether Palestinians are on the map? Historian of science Petter Hellström looks at maps of the colonial era for clues
Olympians and the scientific quest to find out what makes an elite athlete
The Games are a great place to collect performance and health data. We look at Olympic medical studies, and uncover a forgotten citizen science project
Medicine at the Olympics: a bluffer’s guide to 120 years of medical history
It’s not all about doping: Olympic medical history includes doctors ‘in sheds’ waiting for swimmers, a gymnast injured by a hat pin, and a marathoner who had to steal peaches to keep himself going
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