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Identical twin girls wearing event entry bracelets and blue ribbon medals.

The Intriguing History of the Autism Diagnosis

How an autism diagnosis became both a clinical label and an identity; a stigma to be challenged and a status to be embraced.
by Bonnie Evans via Aeon on January 8, 2018

How Science May Help Us Smell the Past

Characterizing artifacts’ odors provides insight on history and conservation.
by Carrie Arnold via Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) on December 21, 2017

For LSD, What A Long Strange Trip It's Been

It's been reviled and revered, criminalized and exploited by the CIA. And now and other psychedelic drugs are being tested as legitimate medical treatments.
by Agnus Chen via NPR on December 16, 2017
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The Other End of the Telescope

Considering astronomy's history from the shadow of the Arecibo Observatory reveals the discipline's intimate ties to imperialism.
by David Singerman on November 24, 2017
Ella Tyree from "Atom Scientists: Ten Negro Scientists at Argonne Lab Help in Race to Harness Atomic Materials”, Ebony magazine, September 1949, pp. 26-28. Copyright not renewed.
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Scientific Americans

An exhibit about some of the ways that pursuits in the natural and physical sciences have helped Americans understand their world.

What The Industry Knew About Sugar's Health Effects, But Didn't Tell Us

A new report says the sugar industry pulled the plug on evidence linking sugar consumption to heart disease.
by Allison Aubrey via NPR on November 21, 2017
Hannah Mayer Stone with Margaret Sanger and other activists.

An Emancipation Proclamation to the Motherhood of America

A profile of Hannah Mayer Stone, one of the key figures in the struggle to make contraception safe, effective, and widely available.
by Jennifer Young via The New Inquiry on November 16, 2017
Head netting for desert camouflage, 1973.

These Striking Photos Show the Secret, Strange World of Military Research and Development

An obscure archive reveals the science—and art—behind combat culture.
by Rian Dundon via Timeline on November 15, 2017

Ancient History of Lyme Disease in North America Revealed with Bacterial Genomes

It turns out that deforestation and suburbanization – not evolution – are to blame for the tick-borne epidemic.
by Elizabeth Ann Reitman via Yale School of Public Health on August 28, 2017

The Strange Secret History of Operation Goldfinger

In the sixties, the U.S. government ran a secret project to look for gold in the oddest places: seawater, meteorites, plants, even deer antlers.
by James Ledbetter via The New Yorker on June 10, 2017

Why Poverty Is Like a Disease

Emerging science is putting the lie to American meritocracy.
by Christian H. Cooper via Nautilus on April 20, 2017

The Internet Should Be a Public Good

The Internet was built by public institutions — so why is it controlled by private corporations?
by Ben Tarnoff via Jacobin on August 31, 2016
Charles Hatfield.
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When San Diego Hired a Rainmaker a Century Ago, It Poured

After Charles Hatfield began his work to wring water from the skies, San Diego experienced its wettest period in recorded history.
by Christopher Klein via JSTOR Daily on December 12, 2015

Atomic Anxiety and the Tooth Fairy: Citizen Science in the Midcentury Midwest

How the St. Louis Baby Tooth Study reconciled the ritual of childhood tooth loss with the geopolitics of nuclear annihilation.
by Caroline Jack, Stephanie Steinhardt via The Appendix on November 26, 2014
Manhattan Island, half with buildings and half wooded as it looked before New York City was built.

New York - Before the City

Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.
by Eric W. Sanderson via TED on July 1, 2009
"Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky," a painting by Benjamin West (ca. 1816).

Electricity and Allegiance

Benjamin Franklin introduced the magical picture, an experiment that played on the king's beloved image and his deadly force.
by Anna S. Barnett via Cabinet on March 1, 2006
Ted Kaczynski being led by two law enforcement officers.

Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber

Purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
by Alston Chase via The Atlantic on June 1, 2000
Donald Trump in the Oval Office, with a portrait of Ronald Reagan in the background.

Like Reagan, Trump Is Slashing Environment Regulations, but His Strategy May Have a Deeper Impact

Both presidents have records as avid deregulators of environmental rules for industry, but Trump’s efforts to cast doubt on science go in a different direction.
by Barbara Kates-Garnick via The Conversation on August 26, 2025
An open hand holds a variety of pills and supplements.

Supplement History: The Truth About Supplements and Vitamins That Teens Should Know

A lack of regulatory oversight of supplements allows misleading labels and dangerous products to slip through the cracks and into American homes.
by Sarah DiGregorio via Teen Vogue on July 31, 2025
Collage of images including spacecrafts, the moon and President Kennedy surround a jumping Elon Musk.

How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline

The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.
by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic on July 28, 2025
Side by side still-frames progressively depict the first nuclear explosion.

80 Years Ago: The First Atomic Explosion, 16 July 1945

Declassified documents show atomic testing in New Mexico distributed radioactive matter to an extent that the scientists at Los Alamos were ill-prepared for.
by William Burr via National Security Archive on July 16, 2025
Scene of prehistoric game hunters.

Prehistory’s Original Sin

We need more than genealogies to know who we are, and who we ought to become.
by Connor Grubaugh via The Hedgehog Review on May 6, 2025
Lethal injection table.
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Lethal Injection Is Not Based on Science

The history of the three-drug combo used in death-penalty executions. 
by Corinna Barrett Lain via HNN on April 29, 2025
David Dobson with scientific equipment.

Nuclear Proliferation and the “Nth Country Experiment”

A mid-1960s “do-it-yourself” project produced “credible nuclear weapon” design from open sources.
by William Burr via National Security Archive on January 23, 2025
Jimmy Carter examines solar panels to be installed at the White House.

Jimmy Carter, Green-Energy Visionary

As President, he told us that we needed to shift to solar power. We should have listened to him then.
by Bill McKibben via The New Yorker on December 29, 2024
A stuffed bear in a room of empty children's beds at Willowbrook Hospital.

The Horrors of Hepatitis Research

The abusive experiments on mentally disabled children at Willowbrook State School were only one part of a much larger unethical research program.
by Carl Elliott via New York Review of Books on October 31, 2024
Tourists at the Trinity site in New Mexico.

Trinity Fallout

The U.S. government’s failure to recognize nuclear Downwinders in New Mexico is part of a broader failure to reckon with the legacies of the Manhattan Project.
by Nora Wendl via Places Journal on June 18, 2024
A drawing of a hedgehog in Buffon's Natural History.

Waking From the Dream of Total Knowledge

Considering how relationships of cooperation and perhaps even solidarity might be forged between human beings and animals.
by Daniel Kraft via The Hedgehog Review on April 15, 2024
J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves

Beyond Tortured Genius: Science and Conscience in Two Rediscovered Oppenheimer Films

"The Day After Trinity" and "The Strangest Dream" evacuate the mythical tropes of the tortured genius biopic that Hollywood loves to rehearse.
by Lauren Carroll Harris via Literary Hub on August 31, 2023
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Why the Fascination with Oppenheimer?

J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project scientists are a rare example of weapons designers who have gone down in history.
by Ryan Dahn via Physics Today on August 17, 2023
Marker at the Trinity test site in New Mexico.

Nolan’s Oppenheimer Treats New Mexico as a Blank Canvas

There is no acknowledgement in the film of the existence of downwinders from the test, in New Mexico or elsewhere.
by Kelsey D. Atherton via Source New Mexico on July 28, 2023
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