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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.
What a bizarre psychological disorder can teach us about memory, human nature, and our sense of who we are.
Scientists know how other animals’ bodies will change in warmer climates, but how will human beings respond?
The life of chimney sweeps was nasty, poor, brutish, filthy dirty, and usually short, thanks to a rare cancer of the genitals.
Funds will support the museum’s ‘Knowing Water: A Digital Exploration of History, Science, and Environmental Justice along the Delaware River’ project.
The long, wacky, and surprisingly thought-provoking history of trying animals in human courts.
Vox’s ‘Unexplainable’ podcast interviews ‘Distillations’ about how Alzheimer’s research has stubbornly focused on a single theory for decades.
‘Distillations’ talks to four science fantasy experts about the Deborah Harkness book series.
Since humans have been living—and inevitably dying—we’ve also been trying to figure out how not to die. Or at least how to keep the party going a little longer.
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.