Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been scaring readers since 1818. But what inspired the book’s overconfident doctor, who believes he can coax life from death? As Sharon Ruston explains for Public ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. In the new movie “Lisa Frankenstein,” a teenage girl gives an animated corpse a makeover, complete ...

Galvanism – the contraction of muscle stimulated by an electric current – was named after 18th Century scientist Luigi Galvani who investigated the effect of electricity on dissected animals. These ...

Similar to the previously seen Text-o-possum, someone's bad art project has spread, virus-like, to the internet, where we have to be subjected to its heavy-handed proclamations on the role of ...

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