Second World War

Bildnis Lise Meitner (1878-1968)

Remembering Lise Meitner

Golda Komalan Satheedas 26/08/2022

Meitnerium is the only element in the periodic table...

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How a Wartime Disaster Led to the Invention of Chemotherapy

Mark Wolverton 03/11/2020

The history of chemotherapy is heavy with moral complexity...

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Lessons for Indian Agriculture During a Pandemic, from M.S. Swaminathan

M.S. Swaminathan 10/06/2020

'The importance of genetic diversity and biodiversity cannot be...

The US military experimented on about 60,000 enlisted soldiers to study the effects of mustard gas, exposure that affected the health of veterans for the rest of their lives. Courtesy: United States Library of Congress

The Soldiers Used as ‘Guinea Pigs’ by the US Military, Then Discarded

Jessica Huseman, ProPublica 18/11/2017

During the Second World War, the government subjected thousands...

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What the 45-Day Annual Fishing Ban in Tamil Nadu Means for Fisheries Conservation

Rahul Muralidharan 15/04/2017

The 45-day fishing ban provides a false impression of...

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How a Hunting Boom Left the Amazon Basin With ‘Empty Rivers’

Carlos Peres, Andre Pinassi Antunes and Glenn Shepard Jr 16/10/2016

The fashion for wild animal skins and furs drove...

Indian Army soldiers and U.S. Army Alaska set up security around a simulated Black Hawk helicopter during a static loading rehearsal. Credit: dvids/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Listen: War and Peas – the Science Behind the Indian Army’s Diet

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 04/11/2015

The unique challenges of feeding an army, and how...