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Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
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?
The world’s first plastic made Hollywood possible—and killed thousands of people along the way.
How a steam-powered automobile in 1869 snuffed out the life of the brilliant naturalist and astronomer Mary Ward.
The tricks and tools book sleuths use to date the undated.
What a bizarre psychological disorder can teach us about memory, human nature, and our sense of who we are.
