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How The Medical Cadaver Finally Got the Respect it Deserves

The rise and fall of medical cadaver ceremonies.
Natalie Zarrelli May 26, 2016
science

The Early, State-Sanctioned LSD Experiments in Communist Bulgaria

Bulgarians were turning on, tuning in, and dropping out long before hippies.
Jordan Todorov May 25, 2016
science

The Scientist Who Discovered Sudden Oak Death Believes We Can Save the Forests

We should have taken the disease more seriously before it killed a million trees, though.
Natalie Zarrelli May 19, 2016
science

Scientists Just Discovered a New Vulnerability in HIV

The hunt for a vaccine is heating up.
Erik Shilling May 18, 2016
science

Watch Buoys Dance With the Flow in This Ocean Current Visualization

The mesmerizing white dots illustrate the movement of more than 17,000 research buoys.
Lauren Young May 18, 2016
science

There’s a Hotline for People With Knotty Wood Questions

Inside Wisconsin's Forest Products Laboratory, where experiments are conducted on all things wood.
Atlas Obscura May 17, 2016
Persu, Duesenberg, some tractor-looking thing
Bucharest, Romania

Dimitrie Leonida Technical Museum

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.
science

A New Form of Light Has Been Discovered

It was kind of an accident.
Erik Shilling May 16, 2016
The Sewerage Science Museum
Osaka, Japan

Sewerage Science Museum

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.
science

Scientists Just Found Cells They Thought Could Never Exist

We may have to rewrite the textbooks.
Erik Shilling May 12, 2016
Interior view of the recently excavated chemical furnace in the ground floor of the University of Virginia's Rotunda
Charlottesville, Virginia

University of Virginia’s Hidden Chemical Hearth

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.
science

Scientists Grow 2-Week-Old Human Embryo Outside of Womb For First Time

The future is coming.
Erik Shilling May 4, 2016
science

Canadian Scientists Are Speaking Out After 9 Years of Censorship

It's been awhile.
Erik Shilling May 4, 2016
science

Watch These Chemicals Create Trippy Colorful Patterns

Some of the chemical reactions even resemble objects we see in nature.
Lauren Young May 3, 2016
science

The World's Most Powerful Particle Collider Was Thwarted by a Weasel

Weasels love to chew, and apparently mess with science.
Natalie Zarrelli April 30, 2016
science

Behold the Whoosh Bottle, Science's Coolest Fire Experiment

A corner of YouTube dedicates itself to videos of these bottles being set ablaze.
Urvija Banerji April 28, 2016
science

Can You Taste Where Your Water is From?

When water is purified, 'pixie dust' is added back in.
Tao Tao Holmes April 26, 2016
science

A Giant, Secret Lake May Have Just Been Discovered in Antarctica

In a part of the continent that has not been extensively researched.
Erik Shilling April 25, 2016