Chelsea Wald
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 […]
Lavatory Laboratory
How sanitation is following the cell phone model.
The New Flight of the Ibis
How a determined scientist taught an ancient species to migrate again.