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The goal of the Stewardship Council is to create a Sustainability Seal for the mining, production, and use of rare earth elements.
An engraving hints at the ways art and science were intertwined in the Age of Enlightenment.
In the 1980s workers in an English peat bog started unearthing bodies, the apparent victims of violence.
The collection of Jewish German chemist Georg Bredig documents the early pioneers of physical chemistry in Europe and the struggles of Jews trying to escape the Nazis.
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.
Humans have a masochistic love of capsaicin, a molecule responsible for the burn in hot peppers. That connection could be a key to pain relief.
How did a Philadelphia chemist wind up a Soviet spy?
Before Bill Nye the Science Guy, there was Professor Harvey E. White of Continental Classroom.
Explore the historical and contemporary challenges posed by the rare earth metals.
This is not just another sappy love story from science’s past.
Foul-mouthed, heavy-drinking eccentric Harry R. Truman became a folk hero for refusing to evacuate his home in the months before Mount St. Helens erupted. Where did he go once it did?
A tiny animal with a big story.
Drought drove American pursuit of desalination in the mid-20th century. Now a changing climate has compelled nations around the world to embrace the double-eged technology.
What possibilities might we be ignoring when we unquestioningly privilege sight as the primary pathway to knowledge about the natural world?
Part 3: Searching for Meaning in Kensington.
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.
A historian of science goes searching for meaning in synthetic life.
City dwellers of the 19th century were dogged by a foul terror: miasma.
Fermentation is the key to many of the lifesaving drugs we have today.
The line between science and art was not always so stark.
It’s complicated.
An environmental success story.
To slow global warming scientists have tried schemes both simple and bizarre to bottle up cow burps.
Warfarin started life as a rat poison, and for all its success the anticoagulant remains as dangerous as its origin suggests.
Where do new drugs come from? And why do so many fail?
Tattoos are more than decoration. But what do you do when the way you look no longer matches who you are?
Through fame, controversy, and peril Josiah Wedgwood and Joseph Priestley’s bond endured.
An illustration of a biochemist connects two British political icons.
The story behind a rare work by the father of the periodic table.