Chelsea Wald

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    Austria’s Ahead-of-Its-Time Institute That Was Lost to Nazis

    In 1911, Popular Science Monthly published an enthusiastic description of a young, private experimental-biology institute in Vienna, lauding its “remarkable scientific productivity resulting from only eight years of research.” Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The author, zoologist Charles Lincoln Edwards, attributed the success of the Biologische Versuchsanstalt (Insitute of […]

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    Lavatory Laboratory

    How sanitation is following the cell phone model.

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    The New Flight of the Ibis

    How a determined scientist taught an ancient species to migrate again.