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Cover of Science under Fire Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America by Andrew Jewett.
Science Beseiged
A nuclear power plant located on the Rhine at night.
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
Bird on rock outcrop in Galapagos Islands
What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?
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
Thai epidemiologists conduct active case investigations for COVID-19 during the Ramadan fasting period.
Pandemics: Today and Yesterday
a military drone in the air over a desert
Military Drones: Terror Weapon or Military Tool?
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
A young Paraguayan boy receives a vaccination during the 2014 'Vaccination Week In The Americas.'
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
melting Wedgemount Glacier
World Population
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
The Temple of Kukulkan at Chichén Itzá.
A Postcard From Chichén Itzá
An artistic rendering of the observable universe by Pablo Carlos Budassi. It depicts the Solar System at the center, surrounded by other celestial bodies and galaxies, and cosmic microwave radiation and plasma left over from the Big Bang at the outer edge.
Top Ten Origins: The Universe’s Greatest Hits
An artist's rendering of the Tunguska event
The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow
a Galapagos sea turtle swimming in the ocean
What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?
A 1950s flyer describing fluoride as rat poison, the polio vaccine as a communist conspiracy to bring about socialized medicine, and mental health as a Jewish plot to imprison anti-Semites in insane asylums.
Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle
Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein