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In the early 1960s a trio at the Rockefeller Institute started a bold experiment to change the way heroin addiction was treated, and they did so using a drug originally created by “the devil’s chemist”
A young psychoanalyst specializing in sexual issues starts getting calls for help—about something else entirely
In the first episode of season five of the Lost Women of Science podcast, we meet a young doctor who, in 1946, was posted to Kentucky’s "Narcotic Farm."
Mycologist Flora Patterson helped make the USDA fungus collection into the world’s largest. She also made a mean mushroom “catsup”
In the first Lost Women of Science Shorts podcast, host Katie Hafner dives into the life and work of Leona Zacharias—a brilliant researcher who, before reporting this story, Hafner only knew as her grandmother