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India’s vultures have been driven to the brink of extinction in a matter of decades. Their loss threatens the well-being of the country’s human population.
New forensics techniques are allowing researchers to solve historical mysteries based on the small traces we leave on everyday objects.
You recognize the important role played by rare earth elements in the global economic infrastructure but are concerned that the costs may outweigh the benefits.
Common electronics and modern technologies depend on rare earth elements.
Your main concern is the threat of restrictions that could adversely affect a stable supply needed to make a variety of products.
This interest group funds and makes available the reports of independent monitors of local air, water, and soil pollution.
The goal of the Stewardship Council is to create a Sustainability Seal for the mining, production, and use of rare earth elements.
Students explore the positive, negative, and conflicting perspectives of rare earth elements through a debate of the issues.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone can experience our collections, research, and facilities.
Rare earth elements are essential to modern life. Luckily the world has plenty of them; unfortunately, getting them out of the ground leaves behind massive environmental damage.
Historian Ingrid Ockert makes a case for the spoken word.
The blaze that sparked the modern environmental movement . . . or did it?
Researchers who live more than 75 miles from the Institute may be eligible for one of our travel grants.
How did a Philadelphia chemist wind up a Soviet spy?
When the United States and Mexico resolved their beef.
Explore the historical and contemporary challenges posed by the rare earth metals.
Harnessing nature to deliver us from drought.
This is not just another sappy love story from science’s past.
We know migraines have afflicted people for at least three thousand years. Still, the condition continues to mystify us today.
A tiny animal with a big story.
An ancient work on toxicology gets a 16th-century makeover from a master of fonts.
Part 3: Searching for Meaning in Kensington.
Part 2: Synanon and the Tunnel Back to the Human Race.
Part 1: The Narcotic Farm and the Promise of Salvation.
The strange, sometimes sickening things we’ve done to understand what goes on inside our guts.
The latest painkiller revival has left a trail of bodies, with no end in sight.
A long-running genetics project in Siberia helps us understand how we made man’s best friend.
City dwellers of the 19th century were dogged by a foul terror: miasma.