Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an astronomer ahead of her time, discovered the relationship between a star’s brightness and its fluctuation period. This breakthrough allowed Edwin Hubble to measure galaxy ...

Leavitt is a high performance computing cluster (HPCC) named in honor of Henrietta Swan Leavitt (left), an American astronomer whose discoveries at the turn of the 20th Century helped shape our ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was not famous in her lifetime. She did not win the Nobel Prize, although her name was ...

The two people whose shoulders Hubble stood on the most, though, were Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Harlow Shapley. Leavitt worked at Harvard College Observatory as a "computer" who would analyze ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both 32 and part of a set of triplets, were reported missing by their landlady on 7 January after telling her they ...

Henrietta, left, and Eliza Huszti went missing on 7 January The body of a second woman has been found near where two missing sisters were last seen in Aberdeen. Henrietta and Eliza Huszti - both ...

Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both aged 32, were last seen on CCTV on Market Street at Victoria Bridge over the River Dee in Aberdeen at about 2.12am on Tuesday 7 January. They had been reported ...

Fremont Community Theatre is thrilled to announce its upcoming production of "Silent Sky," a spellbinding drama that explores the life and groundbreaking work of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt.

But our ability to research, treat and prevent many diseases would not the be the same without Henrietta Lacks, an ordinary woman who unknowingly sparked a scientific breakthrough when a sample of ...

Last July, the Rochester market’s only remaining Jimmy John’s Sandwiches shop at 1635 East Henrietta Road, Henrietta, closed abruptly after 13 years. Now, thanks to three McQuaid Jesuit High ...

Henrietta Honey, a boutique located at 4650 E. Lake Road in Sheffield Lake, features goods made by local artisans. Sherry Lockridge-Oleyar, owner of Henrietta Honey, said she started beekeeping in ...

In recent years, the former Cartwright Inn in Henrietta has been the focus of a lot of curiosity and consternation. The long-vacant building’s slow-motion decay has inspired Facebook threads ...