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Articles in Science & Nature tagged with History

David S. Jones

But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.

Eric Moses Gurevitch

Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves.

Marissa Grunes

Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton's HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

Lawrence Rosen

Pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos sought to redeem the field from its methodological fragmentation and colonial legacies.

Mark Bould

Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.

Emily Kern

A sweeping new history of humanity upends the story of civilization, inviting us to imagine how our own societies could be radically different.

Kyle Harper

Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.

Greg Eghigian

This summer, an intelligence report and a new Harvard research project have renewed the public’s interest in UFOs. But neither is likely to change many minds.

Alina Utrata
Billionaires such as Musk, Bezos, and Branson peddle the idea that space represents a public hope, all the while reaping big private profits.
Duana Fullwiley
Home DNA ancestry kits include no ancestors, instead comparing customers to other present-day people based on assumptions about race and ethnicity. So what are they actually selling?

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