History
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Five Centuries of Influenza
January 12, 2011
Historical records show that flu pandemics have been occurring for at least 500 years. Researchers are now studying these historical pandemics to help prevent future disease.
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From Galileo to Cassini
July 27, 2010
Four hundred years ago, Galileo turned his telescope toward Saturn for the first time. But instead of rings, he saw something quite different.
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Everything Is Illuminated
December 03, 2009
Martin Chalfie, the Nobelist who helped transform biology with a glowing protein, talks with us about his lab and his favorite animal—the roundworm.
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Rethinking Light and Sound
November 23, 2009
The director of the Census of Marine Life on broadening the scope of global change to include illumination and noise.
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Mars: A Teeming Past?
November 09, 2009
Questions of extraterrestrial life rest on theories of Martian history.
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A Man on the Edge
November 03, 2009
A new biography explores Jacques Cousteau’s strange and colorful life but struggles to uncover why he has been so quickly forgotten.
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Traveling Through Time and Stars
October 22, 2009
In Far Out, stunning astronomical images and lyrical essays on the nature of light and space explore the universe’s past.
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A Writing Revolution
October 20, 2009
Nearly universal literacy is a defining characteristic of today’s modern civilization; nearly universal authorship will shape tomorrow's.
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Happy Birthday, Zinjanthropus
July 25, 2009
The Leakeys’ discovery of the “Nutcracker Man” 50 years ago electrified the scientific community and refocused thinking about the origin of humans back on Africa.
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The Future Isn’t What it Used to Be
July 20, 2009
Today, as many nations aspire to the Moon and America struggles to return, does anyone still have “The Right Stuff?”
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Needham’s Grand Question
December 15, 2008
As China reemerges on the science frontier, Simon Winchester offers a vivid account of one man's mission to illuminate its innovative past.
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
