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Biologist John Calhoun’s rodent experiments gripped a society consumed by fears of overpopulation.
When horses gallop, do all four hooves ever leave the ground at once? This episode recounts the saga that led to the answer.
IRLA membership places Institute on prestigious list of some of the nation’s oldest and most distinguished historical societies.
An entomologist from Texas supposedly came up with ‘the single most original idea’ to eradicate screwworms.
Find out what a strange little sparrow can teach us about love, sex, and human biology.
Nuclear waste remains dangerous for millennia, so how do we keep people in the distant future away from it?
Learn what two famous neurological traumas—one involving a U.S. president, the other a Supreme Court justice—can teach us about how our own brains perceive reality.
The Science History Institute and the Society of Chemical Industry America presented the 19th annual Innovation Day on September 13, 2022.
A centuries-old sailor’s hack enters the ecologist’s toolkit.
Discover why the iconic physicist made an unbelievable error while hunting down criminals, and how you can avoid the same dumb mistake.
Learn how an obsession with crustaceans guided the naturalist toward his most consequential insights.
Space toilets and the lessons of living in closed environments.
The Indorama Ventures founder and CEO will be honored March 27, 2022, at AFPM’s International Petrochemical Conference in San Antonio.
A reclusive expert of 19th-century photography laid the foundation for green chemistry solutions emerging today.
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?
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.
Scientists know how other animals’ bodies will change in warmer climates, but how will human beings respond?
$359K+ award will support the exploration of the history and legacy of racism in American science and medicine.
How an obsession with crustaceans guided the naturalist toward his most consequential insights.
Coverage of our new water analysis and protection exhibition includes WHYY, the ‘Philadelphia Inquirer,’ and others.
‘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.
Institute’s ‘Science at Home: The Magic of Alchemy’ video is featured on the annual-event-turned-digital-experience website.
Are historical video games an important tool for learning or do they corrupt our collective understanding of the past?
Forensic science can be a powerful crime-fighting tool, but misdeeds, dubious methodologies, and bogus claims threaten its reputation—and the reputation of science as a whole.
The ‘Ghostland’ author talks about the relationship between technology and the paranormal and how the ghost stories we tell reveal a lot about society.