Discusses the life and discoveries of Galileo, the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who challenged ideas more than a thousand years old and changed the course of science.

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Captures the life and times of Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher who studied a wide range of subjects and helped to shape scientific thought.

Biography of the man whose experiments with electromagnetic waves and development of radio ushered in an era of wireless communication.

Details the life and work of Marie Curie from early childhood to the discovery of radium and her two Nobel Prizes.

Discusses the history of cloning, its possible applications, and some of the controversy surrounding it.

Explains how volcanoes form, locates volcanoes around the world and visits Hawaii to film lava in motion.

Discusses the history of discovery and uses of antibiotics, including their overuse and growing resistance of bacteria.

Presents an anthology of signed entries that examines the concepts, history, techniques, and ethics of correcting genes that are responsible for the development of disease, with a chronology listing events from 1859 to 2003.