Science

Reckoning with our past is crucial to getting buy-in for the vaccine.

You can’t understand the history of American energy use without them. A new visual history puts them in context.

Enslaved children were used in medical trials for early smallpox vaccines. They have been forgotten.

US monuments and memorials have overlooked frontline workers and people of color affected by past epidemics. Will we repeat history?

Many Americans were living under quarantines, and officials warned people to stay home for the holiday.

Returning the "three sisters" to Native American farms nourishes people, land, and cultures.

Yellowtail, the first Crow registered nurse, fought for the inclusion of Native medicine and healing knowledge in reservation hospitals.

Like cigarette manufacturers decades ago, e-cigarette makers have pitched their products as fun and safe. But nobody knows what the risks are.

For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust requires confronting those arguments head on.

The Trump administration reportedly could be taking us down a dangerous path.

How the pain scale fails us.

The replacement of fountain pens was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production.

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.

Climate change and the colonial legacy of fire suppression.

Neuroscientist Bita Moghaddam traces the history of ketamine from the battlefield to the dance floor.

Osteopathy was founded by a 19th-century healer who believed the body was a self-healing machine.

From its name, to its hazy origins, to its drug interactions, there's a lot going on beneath that thick rind.

President Trump has alarmed Jewish leaders by appearing to endorse 'racehorse theory' — used by eugenicists and Nazis last century.

Gains made under Carter’s presidential leadership in the early 1980s might have bought the planet precious time.

The young Founder’s evocative account of the tempest inspired people to send him to the Colonies for a formal education.

A majority of the estimated 675,000 American deaths from the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 occurred during the second wave.

How scientific thought informed colonization and religious conversion during the Age of Discovery.

Marginalized women of color have long seen their reproductive freedom limited.

Racism in medicine, including through forced vaccinations, has created skepticism toward public health campaigns.

When overwhelmed unemployment insurance systems malfunctioned, governments blamed the 60-year-old programming language COBOL. But what really failed?

Mark Twain was a prankster, but his belief in telepathy was real enough that he worried about unintentional telepathic plagiarism.

This syllabus lays groundwork for making questions of race and racism central to studying the histories of medicine and science.

What if there is a vaccine, but not everyone gets it? Exploring the lessons of the polio vaccine's shortcomings as we address a new public health crisis today.

And the lone forecaster who predicted its deadly path.

Having a species named after you is an honor. Not everyone deserves it.