Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem...

Dalrymple recounts each week’s new edition of the Journal with an eye toward analytical errors and a culture of political correctness in regard to the handling of medical and public health issues...

Roberts anchors 20 biographical chapters to a decadal series of events, whose mathematical significance could not often have been anticipated...

Over fifty years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) scolded the agricultural industry for its profligate spread of “poison” and pesticides “indiscriminately from the skies"...

DeLoughrey argues that the cosmopolitan position on Global Warming is in truth a provincial one limited to privileged circles in the Global North...

Harman takes scientific facts, as we know them today, and weaves them into narratives that have the tone, grace and drama of myth...

Behind every landmark drug is a story...

Richert investigates the myths, meanings, and boundaries of recreational drugs, palliative care drugs, and pharmaceuticals, as well as struggles over product innovation, consumer protection, and freedom of choice in the medical marketplace...

How can the history of rubber be used as a way to understand the history of 20th-century Vietnam?

In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed...

Do we have to grow old? Maybe not. David Sinclair explains...

Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II...

LeCain presents a path-breaking approach to the study of the environment and history...

Monmonier shares his insights about the relationships between networks and maps through a collection of essays...

Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...

McCann discusses the great circumpolar ocean that surrounds Antarctica...

Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs...

This is the third of three interviews with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer about their duo-graph, Wind and Power in the Anthropocene...

It is common to see science and religion portrayed as mutually exclusive and warring ways of viewing the world, but is that how actual scientists see it?

Boyer examines the politics of wind development in Mexico to think through how the energy and environmental crises of global warming require new approaches to political theory....

This book describes the most complex machine ever sent to another planet...

Howe examines the aborted Mareña Renovables wind park to understand the resistance of indigenous residents to renewable energy...

In the 1980s, fires burned an average of two million acres per year. Today the average is eight million acres and growing...

James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of Sciences...

Green-Simms examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of West African films, novels, plays, and poems...