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Though science and investigations of the paranormal might seem incompatible, they were intertwined for a long time.
Technology leader to be honored by the Society of Chemical Industry and the Science History Institute during Innovation Day on September 14 in Philadelphia.
Reconsidering the fate of an overlooked polio fighter.
$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.
A scientific dispute takes a violent, absurd turn.
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.
Have modern archeologists finally tracked down the legendary ‘Peking Man’ bones?
When the global vaccine supply chain depended on children.
An interview with author Sam Kean.
An interview with Wendy Zukerman, host of Science Vs podcast.
A lucky streak sends a meteorologist on the flight of a lifetime.
What charlatans of the past can teach us about the COVID-19 crisis.
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.
After 150 years of scrutiny, scholars still misrepresent the British doctor’s life and gender.
Historian of science and Institute fellow Lisa Ruth Rand talks about all the debris floating around in outer space.
When Latin America challenged a new era of colonization.
From Paracelsus to OSHA.
What is intelligence?
A short history of disability in the United States.
Baking homemade bread anchors us to millennia-long traditions.
The biochemical engineer and entrepreneur on her hopes for a better postpandemic society.