Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the Science History Institute Book Club reads two histories of the space race: T-Minusby Jim Ottaviani and Shoot for the Moon by James Donovan.
Distillations talks to the 2019 Othmer Gold Medal winner about her work using nanotechnology to detect and treat disease.
Movies and television shows like to portray scientists as lone geniuses. But scientists with disabilities know that reality is much more complex.
Rare earth elements are essential to modern life. Luckily the world has plenty of them; unfortunately getting them out of the ground leaves behind massive environmental damage.
Humans have a masochistic love of capsaicin, a molecule responsible for the burn in hot peppers. That connection could be a key to pain relief.
Historian Ingrid Ockert makes a case for the spoken word.
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