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How Frankenstein inspired the invention of the defibrillator
The connection between Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and the invention of the defibrillator runs deeper than fiction. Written ...
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From Frankenstein to Reality: Five Experiments Where Science Crossed the Line Into Fiction
When Mary Shelley publishedFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in 1818, she wasn’t just writing a gothic horror novel—she was laying the foundations for science fiction. Her tale of a scientist ...
Students in an ASU class called Prototyping Dreams are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" by rewriting parts of the novel according to contemporary science. Students ...
There are no stitched-together monsters in the biochemistry lab where Julia Parsley, a senior at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, does her experiments with cells and DNA. Nor are there any ...
Living historian Dean Howarth re-enacts science experiments on corpses that could have inspired Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein." (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) An audience member conveys an electrical charge ...
It's been 200 years since Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein created a creature in an experiment so gruesome it immediately became the stuff of horror legend. But Shelley's tale is more than a scary ...
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