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The Institute’s Lisa Ruth Rand talks space junk in this article about Korean blockbuster ‘Space Sweepers.’
Collection smuggled out of Nazi Germany tells story of noted Jewish German scientist’s rise to prominence and the Bredig family’s struggle to survive the Holocaust.
In the waning days of World War II, a psychiatrist raced across Germany to uncover the harrowing abuses of Nazi doctors.
‘Between Us and Catastrophe’ showcases portraits of the pandemic’s essential workers.
It’s one thing to make a scientific discovery, but making it count is another thing entirely.
You are the leader of an environmental organization that is famous for direct action, who is uncertain about supporting yet another sustainability certification.
This is not just another sappy love story from science’s past.
We know migraines have afflicted people for at least three thousand years. Still, the condition continues to mystify us today.
Remembering the Spanish flu 100 years later.
Why the recent findings of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine are enlightening, even if they aren’t surprising.
How a Republican president ushered in the EPA.
Step into the weird and wonderful world of stuffing animals.
A large-format book and digital video installation examining the past, present, and future of waterways like the Delaware and Thames rivers.
You are a scientist who is deeply concerned about the problems of plastic waste in the environment and who sees innovative recycling as the most viable solution.
You are a corporate leader who runs a highly successful company producing corn-based plastics for the rapidly expanding sustainable materials market.
You are a scientist who studies endocrine disruption in human and animal populations and finds that the scientific evidence that endocrine disruptors have adversely affected human populations is weak.
You are a marine biologist and director of NOAA’s Marine Debris Program who is concerned about the toxic effects of plastic trash in the oceans.
You are an expert on environmental toxins and environmental law with a particular interest in the effect of chemical toxins on children.
Singer helped decipher the human genetic code—the chemical language that DNA uses to create the proteins that keep our bodies going and growing. One of her special concerns is recombinant DNA technology.
Fleming’s serendipitous discovery of penicillin changed the course of medicine and earned him a Nobel Prize.
In 1897, in a two-week period while working at Bayer, Hoffmann synthesized both aspirin and heroin. Aspirin is still widely sold as an over-the-counter medication today.
Society has long had strict ideas about sex and gender binaries, but even nature doesn’t always comply.
Asbestos has a long and complicated history. Learn what has given it such flexible meaning.
John Hughes worked his way through uncounted pig brains to find the human body’s natural painkiller.
Following World War II, President Dwight Eisenhower attempted a risky balancing act between war and peace, secrecy and transparency.
This episode takes on the frothy subject of beer, and explores the science, culture, and history behind the suds.
When Communist East Germany built a wall across Berlin, it created two different cities, two different countries, and for scientists two different careers.
For brothers William and Lawrence Knox, earning PhDs in chemistry was not enough to overcome discrimination.
A personal portrait of the Nobel prize-winning crystallographer.