The Mysterious Origins of the Smallpox Vaccine
Though the disease was declared eradicated in 1980, the era of smallpox is far from over
The True Story of “Operation Finale”
Director Chris Weitz explores the 1960 hunt for Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the new feature film
Captain Cook’s 1768 Voyage to the South Pacific Included a Secret Mission
The explorer traveled to Tahiti under the auspices of science 250 years ago, but his secret orders were to continue Britain’s colonial project
What Drove Sigmund Freud to Write a Scandalous Biography of Woodrow Wilson?
The founder of psychoanalysis collaborated with a junior American diplomat to lambaste the former president
The Women Code Breakers Who Unmasked Soviet Spies
At the height of the Cold War, America’s most secretive counterespionage effort set out to crack unbreakable ciphers
See if you can figure out how the American code-breakers unraveled the complexities of the Russian codebook
How Scientists Discovered Helium, the First Alien Element, 150 Years Ago
First found only on the sun, scientists doubted the mysterious element even existed for more than a decade
Nut Milks Are Milk, Says Almost Every Culture Across the Globe
Even though the dairy industry may not like it, labeling the juice from almonds and soy beans ‘milk’ follows centuries of history
To satisfy customers hungry for visions of the British colonies, these artists created wildly imaginative and inaccurate scenes
The Prince Who Preordered Jane Austen’s First Novel
The future George IV was a big fan of the author, a feeling she half-heartedly reciprocated with a dedication years later
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