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This bonus episode explores how a grade school history teacher from Cincinnati uses video games in the classroom.
Are historical video games an important tool for learning or do they corrupt our collective understanding of the past?
The ‘Lady Science’ magazine editors talk about their new book ‘Forces of Nature: The Women Who Changed Science.’
Our approach to fighting wildfires is a fantasy—and it’s making them even more catastrophic.
The ‘Ghostland’ author talks about the relationship between technology and the paranormal and how the ghost stories we tell reveal a lot about society.
Though science and investigations of the paranormal might seem incompatible, they were intertwined for a long time.
When an invisible threat plagued rural 19th-century New England, the evidence pointed to the supernatural.
$130K+ award is part of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission’s efforts to improve public access to historical records.
The Moderna CEO reflects on the incredibly fast development of the COVID-19 vaccine.
How early anatomists provoked some of the strangest riots in history by stealing the dead bodies of the poor.
How a rogue archaeologist in Peru found indisputable evidence of something previously unthinkable—ancient neurosurgery.
How an early 20th-century doctor pitted one scourge (malaria) against another (syphilis).
How greed—and a group of Nazi prisoners—killed off one of the most iconic birds in American history: the ivory-billed woodpecker.
How a weird “scientific” diet fad conquered America in the early 1900s.
And what does it have to do with the unusual chemistry of carbon?
Scientists created an effective male birth control pill in the 1950s, but it had one undesirable side effect.
Though often celebrated, the adventurous First Lady never received full credit for her scientific accomplishments.
When American women bought Marie Curie a vital gram of the element.
Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner navigated a life of science through war and peace.
Have modern archeologists finally tracked down the legendary ‘Peking Man’ bones?
When the global vaccine supply chain depended on children.
During the War of 1870, astronomer Jules Janssen risked his life for scientific prestige and French patriotism.
An interview with author Sam Kean.
An interview with Wendy Zukerman, host of Science Vs podcast.
Chemist Max Bredig’s race to save family and friends from catastrophe.
Institute’s rare book curator is part of Indiana University-led research team using Isaac Newton’s alchemical manuscripts as a test case.
What a manuscript can tell us about an iconic scientist and the history we’ve built around him.
How searching for alchemy’s secrets helped create modern science.
“I just feel broken.”