Inventors & Scientists

October 29, 2026

Tu Youyou Followed an Ancient Text Toward a Modern Malaria Treatment

A search for new malaria medicines led Chinese scientist Tu Youyou to revisit an old medical text. Her team’s work…

September 25, 2026

Frances Arnold: How Evolution Became a Tool for Better Chemistry

At Caltech, engineer and chemist Frances Arnold transformed one of nature’s oldest processes into a practical method for designing enzymes—opening…

September 24, 2026

Chien-Shiung Wu: How a Physicist Rewrote the Rules of the Invisible World

Chien-Shiung Wu helped prove that nature does not always treat left and right equally. Her careful experiments changed modern physics—and…

September 5, 2026

Nikola Tesla and the Race to Electrify the World

A Brilliant Electrical Inventor Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor whose work helped shape the development of alternating-current electrical systems.…