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The Cold War is long gone, but many nuclear weapons remain. What happens when some weapons can’t be retired?
Dive into the world of nixtamalization, a chemical process that allowed the Mesoamerican empires to thrive and tacos to taste good.
Science writer Philip Ball digs into myth, history, and science to untangle the roots of our fears of artificial life.
Anthropologist Jason Pine offers an up-close view of methamphetamine culture in small-town America.
The fight for Brooklyn’s coolest Superfund site.
A small Massachusetts town of knickknack makers helps mold the material world.
In the 1960s chemists created artificial turf. But are synthetic fields better than natural grass?
The story of electricity, danger, nationalism, advertising, and pollution in the lighting of the United States.
Can a parasite in your cat’s litter box take control of your mind?
Nearly a century of asbestos manufacturing carried the borough of Ambler, Pennsylvania, from bust to boom and back to bust. In recent years Ambler has gotten back on its feet, but its industrial past remains very much present.
For more than 2,000 years human ingenuity has turned natural and synthetic poisons into weapons of war.
A tour through the history of radioisotopes, used to study and treat disease and to unlock the secrets of DNA and photosynthesis.
In the 1980s Phil Allegretti found an unusual hobby. His collection of old DDT cans, sprayers, and diffusers tells the story of our contradictory approach to pesticides.
What do ancient Egyptian mummies, early modern medicines, a 19th-century philosopher, and a 21st-century chemist have in common?
For decades science journalists peacefully worked their beat. But trouble came to their ostensibly objective world. How did science writers get caught in the crossfire of the culture wars?
How hard can it be to make a gemstone? Plenty hard. People have been trying for almost 2,000 years, but success finally beckoned in 19th-century France.
How a machine used to create atom bombs became a tool for healing.
Whale oil has been used in soap, explosives, and even margarine. Has it also fueled space exploration?