In 1959, Tatiana Alexeyeva, a Soviet physiologist, declared conjoined twins to be “objects of great scientific interest. A most remarkable human experiment cr… Read More

Inside the Lost Museum, by Steven Lubar, gives readers a privileged peek into the storerooms, boardrooms, and curatorial offices of many storied institutions. I… Read More

On 21 August, North America will experience its first total solar eclipse in decades. Precise maps and times for the event are readily available, detailed down… Read More

On 27 March 1964, a magnitude (M) 9.2 earthquake—the second strongest in recorded history—occurred near Prince William Sound in southern Alaska. The event p… Read More

Whether it’s reports of a new and wondrous technological accomplishment or of the danger we face in a future filled with unbridled machines, artificial intell… Read More

When the first domesticated plants and sedentary communities appeared roughly 12,000 years ago, humans had already logged some 190,000 years as hunters and fora… Read More

In their seminal book Evolution and Healing, Randolph Nesse and George C. Williams describe the design of human bodies as “simultaneously extraordinarily prec… Read More

Imagine you are part of an experiment. You and your coparticipants are shown photographs of two individuals and are asked to choose who is more leader-like. Unb… Read More

Eurocentric assumptions about the history of science and technology, entrepreneurship, epistemology, and scientific methodology are directly challenged in this… Read More

A dog owner weighs twice as much as her German shepherd. Does she eat twice as much? Does a big city need twice as many gas stations as one that is half its siz… Read More