During First Friday on Oct. 6 in downtown Phoenix, ASU’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society had a "Frankenstein" themed booth to promote Future of X, the Frankenstein Bicentennial Project ...

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 ...

The connection between Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and the invention of the defibrillator runs deeper than fiction. Written ...

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 ...

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On January 17, 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, as often happened, his body was carried ceremoniously across the city to ...

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 ...