Distillations magazine

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.

Dissatisfied with the limitations of the human body, some people are modifying themselves with electronic compasses and magnetic implants.

Remembering a Holocaust survivor, immigrant, and inventor.

Our histories of the infamous chemical often conflict with the facts.

A novel swimsuit reveals that faster isn’t necessarily better.

In the early 19th century, Humphry Davy was a scientific superstar, but then science and the world around him changed.