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The woman beside the father of chemistry.
Can artificial intelligence help us decipher smell?
One of America’s most bizarre food battles.
Can science tell us what makes a Stradivarius so special?
Making eco-friendly cement is easy; the hard part comes later.
A globe-hopping doctor and a weird amphibian produce a fast, inexpensive pregnancy test.
Scientists with disabilities have frequently faced intolerance and prejudice in their careers.
A painting bears the mark of Nazi brutality but also speaks to our capacity for kindness and bravery.
Using 21st-century medicine to maintain a 300-year-old way of life.
Computers have always been central to NASA’s accomplishments: they just used to be women.
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.
Exhibition of European paintings exploring depictions of chemistry and alchemy from the 17th through the 19th century.
A discovery by Indian scientist and statesman Meghnad Saha revealed the nature of stars.
How deodorant became omnipresent in America.
Remembering a Holocaust survivor, immigrant, and inventor.
The unnatural history of a carbonated drink.
In the early 19th century, Humphry Davy was a scientific superstar, but then science and the world around him changed.
A Hollywood impresario tries to make his mark on the movie business.
When does self-experimentation cross the line?
Alchemists once wrote of chaos, dragons, and spirits, but did they know more about chemistry than we give them credit for?
Filippo Marinetti thought he could change Italian society through its collective belly.
In the 1940s two chemists joined forces to fight Los Angeles’s stinky, stinging air.
Ernest Lawrence championed the idea of science done collectively. But he failed to champion his own scientists during the Red Scare.
Discover the history of chemistry sets and how these miniature laboratories for children contained much more than their parts.
Synthetic fibers not only changed the fashion industry; they changed how women lived their lives.
How do you get across that point that something you do today is going to affect somebody farther down the road?
We’re trying to make sure that the chemicals that are being controlled from emissions are the right ones.