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polar bear stepping off the ice
Killing the Arctic – Human Impact on the Arctic
cars on a highway
Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol
Copernicus
Copernicus, Galileo, and the Catholic Church
Artist representation of data security and privacy. Large eye peeks through an open window.
These Machines Know Too Damn Much
image of Mendeleev with periodic table of elements in background
Mendeleev's Periodic Table
Two vials of modern insulin named Actrapid (left) and NovoRapid (right) by the manufacturers.
The First Insulin Injection as a Treatment for Diabetes
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd
An HIV AIDS patient in Mozambique
What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care
Multicolored hanging telephones
From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone
Cover of Science under Fire Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America by Andrew Jewett.
Science Beseiged
The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power
A red AIDS ribbon outlined in candles
The Global History of HIV
Employees operating a testing center at the Walmart Supercenter in Elizabethville, PA, August, 2020.
Licenses to Ill: Health Passes and Surveillance
MTA digital message campaign recognizes "Heroes moving Heroes," frontline employees who help other essential workers get to and from their jobs, 2020.
Work and Life after COVID-19
Pandemics: Today and Yesterday
drawing of internet communications
What Will the Internet Bring?
Cañón_Silfra,_Parque_Nacional_de_Þingvellir,_Suðurland,_Islandia
Divergent Plate Boundaries: The Earth is Tearing Itself Apart
Sir Christopher Wren
The Society That Started It All: The Origins of Modern Science
Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective
The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]
Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety
Neil Armstrong stands by the Lunar Module "Eagle" during the first walk on the moon in 1969.
Fly Me to the Moon
Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev
Mendeleev's Periodic Table
A Hawaiian man employing the spearfishing techniques described by Fagan, circa 1890.
Built Upon Bounty
Tanks rolling off a German assembly line in 1943
The Nature of World War II