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Painting of shipwreck in rough seas

Reginald Fessenden and the Invention of Sonar

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black and white photo of young man in lab

The Dual Legacies of Henry Moseley

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Color photograph of a mushroom cloud

Element Hunting in a Nuclear Storm

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Bredig Archive materials

Hamodia: A Golden Age Turned Black
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Silhouette of a vulture in front of a low sun.

Poison Pill: The Mysterious Die-Off of India’s Vultures

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Jesse Gelsinger, 18, in an undated family photo

The Why: The Philadelphia Tragedy that Changed Gene Therapy
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Jesse Gelsinger photo illustration

The Death of Jesse Gelsinger, 20 Years Later

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Fire in the Cuyahoga River with a firefighter boat blasting water

The Myth of the Cuyahoga River Fire

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Greetings from Isotopia

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Artwork from the graphic novel Trinity

Graphic History

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Comic Drama: Illustrating the Manhattan Project

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Return to the Scene

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