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  1. Humans

    From the January 4, 1936, issue

    Experimental rockets, a tuberculosis-fighting bacteriophage, and an antidote for barbiturate poisoning.

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  2. Math

    Slide Rule Universe

    Nowadays, calculators and computers are essential tools for scientists and engineers. A few decades ago, however, an ingenious calculating device called the slide rule was in every engineer’s toolbox. This Web site provides a glimpse of those long-gone days. It provides references materials on the care, feeding, and use of slide rules, a slide-rule marketplace, […]

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  3. 19627

    Epidemiologist Scott Davis warns, “Melatonin supplements are not regulated” the way drugs are. . . . “There may be all kinds of impurities and contaminants.”