In this first chapter of a new five-part season we meet Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, a physician and pharmacologist who... more

In the 1950s, a German drug company developed a new sedative that was supposed to be 100% safe: thalidomide. So... more

In the 1920s, when newspapers and magazines started to showcase stories about science, many of the early science journalists were... more

By the second half of the 20th century, physicists were on a mission to find the ultimate building blocks of... more

Dr. Jess Wade is a physicist at Imperial College London who’s made it her mission to write and update the... more

Dr. Nancy Hopkins, a molecular biologist who made major discoveries in cancer genetics, became an unlikely activist in her early... more

“The only time I ever saw something that I thought was abnormal…there was a human arm in the refrigerator,” said... more

When Laura J. Martin decided to write a history of ecological restoration, she didn’t think she would have to go... more

In our final episode, we explore Dorothy Andersen’s legacy — what she left behind and how her work has lived... more

The missing portrait of Dr. Andersen takes us on a journey into the perils of memorialization and who gets to... more