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Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
Chemist Max Bredig’s race to save family and friends from catastrophe.
A lucky streak sends a meteorologist on the flight of a lifetime.
What a manuscript can tell us about an iconic scientist and the history we’ve built around him.
How searching for alchemy’s secrets helped create modern science.
Four elements in verse.
“I just feel broken.”