Odyssey recognizes women who have made significant contributions to astronomy within the past two centuries including Maria Mitchell, Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, Annie Jump …

(In conjunction with a CALLIOPE issue) Leonard da Vinci excelled at so many things he must have had an extraordinary brain. How did his brain work? The life of this astronomer, bot …

He has 1093 patents registered in his name - and he almost never went to bed, preferring cat naps to a good night's sleep. Thomas Alva Edison was a one-man invention convention who …

He couldn't drive, he couldn't swim, and he thought socks were unnecessary. Follow this wild-haired, eccentric's development from his boyhood in Germany to the world-renowned physi …

Henry Ford, John Davison Rockefeller, John Deere, and Levi Strauss. Richard Warren Sears, Alvah Curtis Roebuck, and Aaron Montgomery Ward. Ray Kroc and Dick MacDonald - all were ri …

Many of the spectacular breakthroughs that have spurred advances in science over the centuries have been the result of rivalry, jealousy, and conflict - as well as the need to impr …

A look at the life and work of Richard Feynman, a remarkable physicist, teacher, raconteur, and author of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman. A unique and multifaceted individual, F …

A biographical issue focusing on the life and work of this paleontologist and author who helped to demystify science (special focus on his contributions to evolution, the process). …

Read about a woman who invented a revolutionary hair treatment. Learn why a bed made another woman an inventor. Meet a man who worked along with Thomas Edison and patented some of …

In this compelling edition readers are introduced to a series of scientists whose work is influenced by important factors in their lives. Meet a woman whose genetic history include …

There are so many ways to remember this citizen of the cosmos, as Carl Sagan liked to describe himself. He was first a world-class scientist who studied planetary climates, dreamed …

Like peanut butter? How about refined sugar? Remember the passage in Herman Melville's Moby Dick about the Temple toggle iron that made harpooning a whale so much easier? Did you k …

Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus at Harvard, Wilson has written 20 books, won two Pulitzer prizes, and discovered hundreds of new species. In the late 1950s, he discovered …