17 Molecules that Changed History Here is an additional example from the first-place winner of the 2015 Science Writing Contest. The author vividly describes a scene that immediately establishes the ...

Columnist Caroline Gainer remembers her years living in a steel town, and particularly how it almost assuredly hurt her lungs.

The earthy smell that arises when rain falls is known as petrichor. Two Australian scientists coined the term in 1964. Petrichor initially becomes noticeable as humidity rises before the rain but ...