Distillations magazine

Why would anyone visit a radioactive ghost town or the remnants of a nuclear reactor?

Candy stores in the 19th century sold sweets as deadly as they were delicious.

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.

Is the mayonnaise substitute Just Mayo the future of food or just another product from the hype machine?

GMOs are one of the great success stories of the postwar era. So why do many find this technology so distasteful?

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 a time of warring empires and transoceanic voyages, sailors dreaded scurvy more than any other disease.

In the 1950s, a devious oil company created a television show to flatter industrialists and win their business.

The highs and lows of lab life.

How a Republican president ushered in the EPA.

How the chemical agent made the transition from wartime weapon to domestic police tool.

The jogging craze of the 1970s required a change of equipment.

John Harvey Kellogg’s Battle Creek Sanitarium was at the intersection of new ideas of religion, health, and nutrition.

For more than a century ozone therapy has been a source of false hope for the sick and ill-gotten gains for the crooked.

A discovery by Indian scientist and statesman Meghnad Saha revealed the nature of stars.