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  1. Earth

    New PCBs?

    New studies have begun linking toxic risks with a ubiquitous family of flame retardants.

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  2. Chemistry

    The Nature of Things

    An earth scientist's proposed alternative periodic table of elements is emblematic of the growing desire among scientists to recast this 130-year-old chart.

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  3. From the October 21, 1933, issue

    COULD YOU DO THIS AT 18 MONTHS? Could you climb a smooth slide as the baby on the front cover does when you were a year and a half old? Of course not. But perhaps you could have, had you been given the training that 18-month-old Johnny, pictured in one of his favorite exercises, has […]

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  4. Loss of Smell

    To many people, the ability to sense all sorts of odors is a normal occurrence and something that they take for granted.