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Licensing organization’s #CCSharesCulture competition celebrates better sharing of global cultural heritage.
How a simple operation—castrating little boys—produced the greatest singers the world has ever known.
With their creeping, bloodsucking ways, bedbugs continue to mock human superiority.
How a bloody gun duel between two doctors in Transylvania sparked a frenzy of outrage—and helped create the American Medical Association.
How a feisty, suicidal Nobel laureate infuriated both Hitler and Stalin, and stalled cancer research for 50 years along the way.
In a building full of dead bodies, how can you tell a murder victim from an unlucky stiff?
Reserve a guided gallery tour or virtual visit for your group or class.
The world’s first plastic made Hollywood possible—and killed thousands of people along the way.
How a steam-powered automobile in 1869 snuffed out the life of the brilliant naturalist and astronomer Mary Ward.
What a bizarre psychological disorder can teach us about memory, human nature, and our sense of who we are.
Scientists know how other animals’ bodies will change in warmer climates, but how will human beings respond?
The life of chimney sweeps was nasty, poor, brutish, filthy dirty, and usually short, thanks to a rare cancer of the genitals.
Funds will support the museum’s ‘Knowing Water: A Digital Exploration of History, Science, and Environmental Justice along the Delaware River’ project.
The long, wacky, and surprisingly thought-provoking history of trying animals in human courts.
Vox’s ‘Unexplainable’ podcast interviews ‘Distillations’ about how Alzheimer’s research has stubbornly focused on a single theory for decades.
‘Distillations’ talks to four science fantasy experts about the Deborah Harkness book series.
Since humans have been living—and inevitably dying—we’ve also been trying to figure out how not to die. Or at least how to keep the party going a little longer.
This bonus episode explores how a grade school history teacher from Cincinnati uses video games in the classroom.
Are historical video games an important tool for learning or do they corrupt our collective understanding of the past?
The ‘Lady Science’ magazine editors talk about their new book ‘Forces of Nature: The Women Who Changed Science.’
Our approach to fighting wildfires is a fantasy—and it’s making them even more catastrophic.
The ‘Ghostland’ author talks about the relationship between technology and the paranormal and how the ghost stories we tell reveal a lot about society.
Though science and investigations of the paranormal might seem incompatible, they were intertwined for a long time.
When an invisible threat plagued rural 19th-century New England, the evidence pointed to the supernatural.
$130K+ award is part of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission’s efforts to improve public access to historical records.
The Moderna CEO reflects on the incredibly fast development of the COVID-19 vaccine.
How early anatomists provoked some of the strangest riots in history by stealing the dead bodies of the poor.