The fight for Brooklyn’s coolest Superfund site.

A centuries-old sailor’s hack enters the ecologist’s toolkit.

A natural plastic found in tree sap allowed the expansion of the 19th century’s global communications network.

The pirate-turned-naturalist-turned-pirate-again inspired generations of British writers and scientists.

Biologist John Calhoun’s rodent experiments gripped a society consumed by fears of overpopulation.

When horses gallop, do all four hooves ever leave the ground at once? This episode of The Disappearing Spoon recounts the saga that led to the answer.