Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an astronomer ahead of her time, discovered the relationship between a star’s brightness and its fluctuation period. This breakthrough allowed Edwin Hubble to measure galaxy ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was not famous in her lifetime. She did not win the Nobel Prize, although her name was being considered before her untimely death in 1921. Neither is it vital to this story that ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was not famous in her lifetime. She did not win the Nobel Prize, although her name was ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

It is the International Day Of Women And Girls In Science, and what better way to celebrate than to discuss the work of Henrietta Leavitt, the scientist who discovered Cepheid variables and laid the ...

Karoline Leavitt is a bit cross with the California Democrat who accused her of faux faith. The White House press secretary fired back at freshman Rep. Dave Min, who attacked Leavitt on X last ...

Donald Trump's Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt engaged in a public spat with a Democrat Senator over his comments about Leavitt's Christian faith. The spat comes as Trump revealed that he wants ...

The bodies of two women found in the River Dee in Aberdeen have been confirmed as missing sisters Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, who went missing in Aberdeen nearly a month ago. Supt David Howieson, of ...

NEW ORLEANS — Brandon Graham is living the John Elway and Michael Strahan fantasy. Barring a change of heart, Graham played the final game of his 15-year NFL career Sunday and went out as a ...

In 2010, Rebecca Skloot published The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a compelling look at Henrietta Lacks’ story, her impact on medical science, and important bioethical issues. That book became ...

The story portrayed in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks points to several important bioethical issues, including informed consent, medical records privacy, and communication with tissue donors and ...