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Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
With their creeping, bloodsucking ways, bedbugs continue to mock human superiority.
How a bloody gun duel between two doctors in Transylvania sparked a frenzy of outrage—and helped create the American Medical Association.
How a feisty, suicidal Nobel laureate infuriated both Hitler and Stalin, and stalled cancer research for 50 years along the way.
The groundbreaking ecologist showed that the biological diversity within a stream can be used to diagnose its health.
In a building full of dead bodies, how can you tell a murder victim from an unlucky stiff?
The world’s first plastic made Hollywood possible—and killed thousands of people along the way.
