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Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans
400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism
melting glaciers
Top Ten Origins: Climate Change
From the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.
Top Ten Origins: Climate Change
lab tech with vaccine
Vaccines and Responsible Parenthood
Book Cover of Brain, Mind and Internet: A Deep History and Future By: David J. Staley
9/22/2014 Hot off the Presses: Your Brain on the Internet
Predator drone.
Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones
Albert Hofmann
Albert Hofmann Discovers LSD
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.
The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch Book Cover.
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
Depiction of Isaac Newton
A “God Particle” for Isaac Newton’s Birthday
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Charles Thorpe Book Cover
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism, by Aaron Sachs Book Cover
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
Cover of The Anatomy Murders by Lisa Rosner
The Anatomy Murders
Sputnik
Soviets Launch Sputnik, 1957
Cover of the Measure of Earth The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World by Larrie D. Ferreiro
Figuring Out the Shape of the World
Cover of Space Travel, November 1958
Gingrich and Romney: Right and Wrong on Space Travel
In the last fifty years, global agricultural practices have favored growing ever fewer varieties of high-yielding crops, leading to fears that the loss of genetic diversity in food leaves the growing human population exposed to risks of food shortages from disease, pests, and climate change.
Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks
Oil and coal dominated U.S. energy production in the twentieth century.
Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America
Protesters demonstrate against nuclear power and a storage facility at Rokkasho following the March 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima I power plant, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl (1986).
'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan
Gemini 4 astronaut Ed White in open space, 1965.
Human Spaceflight Began Fifty Years Ago This Month, But Not Much Has Happened Lately
In 2005, Dr. Terrence Tumpey, a Center for Disease Control Microbiologist, examines recreated 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus to help understand its particularly deadly effects.
Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again
STS-116 mission specialists, NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam and ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang perform extravehicular activity (EVA) during construction of the International Space Station.
Facing Opportunities and Obstacles in Space
British scientist Charles Darwin.
Charles Darwin’s American Adventure: A Melodrama in Three Acts
Crowds outside the Bank of United States in New York after its failure in 1931.
Blame It All on Unintended Consequences