Tag: History of science
A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what...
Ted Powers, University of California, Davis
An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success...
Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries...
Jeremiah Bartz, University of North Dakota
A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years...
How a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh...
Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University; Katharina Domnanich, Michigan State University, and Sean Liddick, Michigan State University
Each October, the...
Why is astronomy a science but astrology is not?
Talia Dan-Cohen, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and Carl Craver, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St....
‘Jurassic World’ scientists still haven’t learned that just because you can...
Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University
“Jurassic World: Dominion” is hyperbolic Hollywood entertainment at its best, with an action-packed storyline...
Electric eels inspired the first battery two centuries ago and now...
Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University
As the world’s need for large amounts of portable energy grows at an ever-increasing...
Women’s History Month: 5 groundbreaking researchers who mapped the ocean floor,...
Maggie Villiger, The Conversation
Behind some of the most fascinating scientific discoveries and innovations are women whose names might...
Trailblazing women who broke into engineering in the 1970s reflect on...
Laura Ettinger, Clarkson University
Engineering in the U.S. has long been – and continues to be – a male-dominated...
EXPLORING NATURE
Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels,...
Ramesh Agarwal, Washington University in St. Louis
As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand...
