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.
The strange, sometimes sickening things we’ve done to understand what goes on inside our guts.
Arthur Daemmrich reviews Jeremy Greene’s Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease.
A globe-hopping doctor and a weird amphibian produce a fast, inexpensive pregnancy test.
How a feisty, suicidal Nobel laureate infuriated both Hitler and Stalin, and stalled cancer research for fifty years along the way.
The groundbreaking ecologist showed that the biological diversity within a stream can be used to diagnose its health.
In a building full of dead bodies, how can you tell a murder victim from an unlucky stiff?
