Patricia Fara, a historian of science at the University of Cambridge, UK, has written for decades about subjects from Isaac Newton to the women who worked as researchers during the First World War.

But once the sun sets, he works as a cartoonist, drawing and publishing scientific cartoons on his website Biocomicals. Uzun takes the experiences he gains from time in the laboratory and classroom to ...

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