Science & Technology Figures

There are scientific revolutions that explode with headlines, and there are revolutions that begin under the lens of a microscope, with a single mind patiently watching an ear of corn…

Some scientific lives are a single bright flare; others are constellations that show travelers where to go. The Sydney Brenner biography reads like the latter: a pattern of discoveries that…

The twentieth century’s molecular turn can feel inevitable in hindsight, but a definitive Jacques Monod biography begins with uncertainty: a puzzling growth curve, a scientist’s stubborn curiosity, and a willingness…

The modern language of genomics—the ability to read a living organism’s code—didn’t appear all at once. It arrived in careful steps, won by a famously modest English biochemist who preferred…

A longform, original feature on the science, ethics, and enduring legacy of Jonas Salk’s work—crafted for readers and editors who value depth, clarity, and public-minded journalism. The middle decades of…

If modern biology speaks in the language of circuits, switches, and feedback loops, it is largely because François Jacob taught generations of scientists to think that way. A wartime ambulance…

Few scientific stories are told as often—and as dramatically—as the tale of a messy benchtop and a Petri dish left out over a late-summer holiday. But the story of Alexander…

Long before silicon wafers and cloud platforms, a young mathematician imagined a machine that could manipulate ideas as readily as it calculated sums. In a century powered by steam, Ada…