Second World War

Remembering Lise Meitner

How a Wartime Disaster Led to the Invention of Chemotherapy

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

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

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

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

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