Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
Sophisticated drugs have enabled those with HIV to live long lives—as long as they take their medication.
Highly active antiretroviral drugs have turned HIV, once a death sentence, into a chronic manageable disease. But many people living with HIV, particularly the young, don’t take their medication properly—despite grave consequences for themselves and society.
Today's episode begins the three-part series The Stages of Life. To kick things off, we spotlight the chemistry found in childhood.
Charles Mann’s latest book traces how scientists William Vogt and Norman Borlaug took very different approaches to feeding the world and how their feuding ideas anticipated today’s environmental debates.
Better photosynthesis, bomb-sniffing spinach, and that’s just the start of the ways plants are inspiring scientific innovation.
The Science History Institute Book Club reads The 4% Universe by Richard Panek.
