In this episode we share different ways that scientists have reached out to educate and enlighten the masses.

Neon is a dull and invisible gas until it’s trapped in a tube and zapped with electricity. Literally pulled out of thin air, neon became the bright light of the modern world, a symbol of progress, and an essential component of the electronic age.

Historian Bert Hansen mines magazines, newspapers, comic books, and movies to catch a glimpse of science as imagined by earlier generations.

New forensics techniques are allowing researchers to solve historical mysteries based on the small traces we leave on everyday objects.

A lesson in humility begets a scientific revolution.

An engraving in the Science History Institute’s collections hints at the ways art and science were intertwined in the Age of Enlightenment.