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Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
Our approach to fighting wildfires is a fantasy—and it’s making them even more catastrophic.
Forensic science can be a powerful crime-fighting tool, but misdeeds, dubious methodologies, and bogus claims threaten its reputation—and the reputation of science as a whole.
The ‘Ghostland’ author talks about the relationship between technology and the paranormal and how the ghost stories we tell reveal a lot about society.
Though science and investigations of the paranormal might seem incompatible, they were intertwined for a long time.
When an invisible threat plagued rural 19th-century New England, the evidence pointed to the supernatural.
Reconsidering the fate of an overlooked polio fighter.
