WEIRD HISTORY

Her dramatic death often overshadows her epic life, but it shouldn’t.  By Brianna Bibel, Biochemistry, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – Illustration by Matteo Farinella. The mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Hypatia is considered the first known female mathematician and one of the “last great …

For centuries, no one could read it. by Sarah Laskow –  The papyrus before conservation. University of Basel. At the University of Basel, in Switzerland, the papyrus collection contained a mystery. Most of the papyri had come to the university around 1900, for …