Science

A dark mystery shocked America in the early 1990s, from prime-time shows to Congress. It’s largely been forgotten. It shouldn’t be.

Why does the diagnosis of Gage social ‘disinhibition’ lean so heavily on flimsy documentation about Gage, while overlooking the case of Eadweard Muybridge?

The establishment of a federal agency devoted to space, physics, and more belied a cross-party consensus that such disciplines were vital to national interest.

A new book challenges the discursive ignorance about the condition.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Freedom House Ambulance Service set the standard for emergency medical care, laying the groundwork for the services available today.

It used to be progressives who distrusted the experts. What happened?

During the McCarthy era’s darkest days, public lands came under attack. History now repeats itself – and this may be the last chance to defend what’s ours.

Medicaid has always been fiercely contested political terrain, and past cuts have had disastrous human costs.

"We should go back into history and ask: Why did we need the federal Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906?"

The history of the three-drug combo used in death-penalty executions. 

In the 19th century, tens of thousands of babies died every year of gastroenteritis.

“When you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash.”

The demystification of pregnancy.

The health secretary’s clearest plans for psychiatric treatment are a retreat to the past.

Noyes is not a household name, but his evangelism for the notion of design as a holistic strategy is so pervasive that many now take it for granted.

The public and private battles waged across Europe and the United States during the 1918 flu pandemic.

As a boy, David Edmonston was the source of today’s measles vaccine. Now he regrets vaccine doubts.

Queer resistance to state-sponsored oppression campaigns, from Reagan to Trump.

The invention’s true origin story has long been the subject of debate.

In the ’50s, America declared science an ‘endless frontier.’ We may be reaching the end of it.

The curious case of social psychology.

From India to the Amazon to Israel, bulldozers have left a path of destruction that offers a cautionary tale for how technology can be misused.

Can the racialist and eugenicist roots of statistics can be cordoned off from “proper” science?

How a small factory off the coast of North Carolina played a role in the war.

Mifepristone took longer to get approved than most drugs—but not because it was unsafe.

How a top-secret satellite surveillance program accidentally documented climate change.

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.

Kennedy wants to create "wellness drug rehabilitation farms." But the U.S. tried it before, and it didn't work.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s nomination to lead HHS reflects the rising power of an anti-vaccination movement more than 100 years in the making.

Abortion exceptions in legal history.