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A crusading doctor’s stomach-churning efforts to beat back pellagra in the American South.
From Paracelsus to OSHA.
The marine geologist and geophysicist talks about doing science with an invisible disability.
Is seeing believing?
Baking homemade bread anchors us to millennia-long traditions.
Watch this documentary about the remarkable life and legacy of chemist, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Arnold Beckman.
The MIT chemical engineer and entrepreneur talks about Moderna Therapeutics, a company he helped start, and his work developing a way for vaccines to self-boost in the body.
The clues that betray a book’s disreputable past.
Mary Jo Nye and Alan Rocke will be honored jointly at a ceremony in Paris in February 2022.
A recent collection showcases the famous and not-so-famous women who have left their mark on the periodic table.
A crowdsourcing campaign on social media results in identification of a previously unnamed female scientist in photo from 1940s.
The former CEO of Gilead Sciences tells us about remdesivir, an older drug showing promise in the fight against COVID-19.
You are a researcher based in Brazil who consults with companies about the medical applications of rare earth elements and who is interested in ensuring a reliable supply of rare earth elements for medical applications.
After transforming the periodic table should the promising young scientist have been allowed to fight in World War I?
Historian Bruce Moran reveals the life of an itinerant doctor whose work influenced modern science.
Women have often faced barriers to participating in science—even seeing their contributions credited to men—but science is definitely women’s work.
What happens when an earth-shattering discovery runs up against the scientifically impossible?
The transfermium elements—the fleeting, lab-made substances that populate the end of the periodic table—have a history built on pride and acrimony.
You are a CEO concerned that low prices in the rare earths market discourage sustainable practices and the development of innovative methods of production.
You are an academic chemist interested in “green chemistry” who develops new approaches to producing the rare earth elements.
A comprehensive lost of assigned readings, video clip links, and other sources needed for game play.
You are a community college professor who is volunteering with a group pushing for more sustainable mining practices that reduce water pollution and work with local residents.
The 17 metallic elements found in the middle of the periodic table have unique properties that make them essential to modern life.
The term rare earth was coined when an unusual black rock was unearthed by a miner in Ytterby, Sweden, in 1788.
In the last years of World War II a group of American scientists and soldiers raced to capture enemy physicists, sabotage Hitler’s nuclear ambitions, and do it all before their Soviet allies were any the wiser.
The Institute’s Brigitte Van Tiggelen is quoted in this article on Mendeleev’s chart and the variations proposed in the 150 years since.
Science writer Deborah Blum chronicles one chemist’s fight to bring order to a lawless food industry.
New forensics techniques are allowing researchers to solve historical mysteries based on the small traces we leave on everyday objects.
A lesson in humility begets a scientific revolution.
Common electronics and modern technologies depend on rare earth elements.