Operation Paperclip: The Secret Post WWII US Intelligence Program
As Nazi Germany lost power, the United States government sought its most valuable scientists—regardless of their actions.
The Discovery of Penicillin and its Impact on Modern Medicine
The antibiotic saved many lives during WWII and afterward.
Books Like Braiding Sweetgrass That’ll Change the Way You View Nature
We can learn a lot from nature if we’re willing to listen.
Cold War Tensions Peak in Mushroom Cloud, an Immersive Historical Novel
It’s the first installment of a new trilogy.
What Happened With Oppenheimer’s Revoked Security Clearance
The award-winning physicist faced opposition.
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10 Fun Facts About Antarctica, Earth's Most Remote Continent
Though this continent may be desolate, it's far from boring.
Books Like Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer
The story of the father of the atomic bomb is coming to the silver screen.
11 Infamous Hoaxes That Fooled the World
What’s better than a true story? A story that’s too good to be true.
The Tragic Case of the Radium Girls, and Their Impact on Labor Rights
This public injustice became a force for change.
6 Fossil Hunters Who Dug Up Clues From the Past
Their discoveries changed our perception of prehistory.
12 Books About the History of Space Exploration
The triumphant, the tragic, and everything in between.
A Research Team Has Found the Endurance Shipwreck
106 years after it sank in the Antarctic, the historic ship has been located.
The Chimp That Was Launched Into Space
Ham the Astrochimp, as he came to be called, paved the way for human spaceflight.
This Female Coder Wrote the Apollo Project by Hand
Margaret Hamilton oversaw MIT's groundbreaking Software Engineering Division.
