Stories
- Article
The metamorphosis of masturbation
Throughout history, medics and campaigners have tried to stamp out masturbation – but is modern science transforming its reputation?
- Article
Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
- Article
Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
- Article
What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Discovery
Date: 2001Reference: SB/9/2/81Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Books
Discovery in the biomedical sciences : logic or irrational intuition? / Kenneth F. Schaffner.
Schaffner, Kenneth FDate: 1980- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Discovery (publication)
Date: 1961Reference: SB/1/2/251Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Discovery Channel
Date: 1994Reference: PP/CRI/K/13/15Part of: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives- Audio
- Online
Discovery of penicillin.
Date: 1945
