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The good and bad of an everlasting invention.
And how California’s car emission standards continue to influence the rest of the country.
It’s complicated.
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An environmental success story.
Warfarin started life as a rat poison, and for all its success the anticoagulant remains as dangerous as its origin suggests.
Tattoos are more than decoration. But what do you do when the way you look no longer matches who you are?
Sniffing out a peculiar love of books.
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The disputed origin story of one of the 20th century’s most important inventions.
The rise of synthetic fibers and the war on cotton.
The woman beside the father of chemistry.
A cautionary tale of technology run riot.
Can artificial intelligence help us decipher smell?
William Herschel had a conflicted relationship with his biggest creation.
One of America’s most bizarre food battles.
Some surprisingly controversial theories of human longevity.
Escape is only the first challenge.
Using 21st-century medicine to maintain a 300-year-old way of life.
Is the mayonnaise substitute Just Mayo the future of food or just another product from the hype machine?
Hippies of the 1960s and 1970s were not necessarily the technophobes they are often made out to be.
In the 1950s, a devious oil company created a television show to flatter industrialists and win their business.
Out of the lab and into the streets.
The highs and lows of lab life.
Lasers, tattoo removal, and second chances.
A discovery by Indian scientist and statesman Meghnad Saha revealed the nature of stars.
How biohackers are using artificial perceptions to enhance reality.
How deodorant became omnipresent in America.
The unnatural history of a carbonated drink.
Alchemists once wrote of chaos, dragons, and spirits, but did they know more about chemistry than we give them credit for?