50 Years Ago

Olive oil injections aid in treating pneumonia

Treating pneumonia with olive oil sounds strange, but the idea showed signs of early scientific savvy.

Mathematicians think of everything as rubber

How the rubbery world of topology may help describe the universe.

Science Past from the issue of October 21, 1961

‘ALARM CLOCK’ BRINGS SNAKES TO SURFACE — A built-in “alarm clock” apparently helps a brightly-banded little desert snake come to the surface at night after he has buried himself to escape the day’s heat…. It had been noted that these snakes, which remain buried in the sand most of the time, appear to come to […]

Ancient Rome forbade downtown traffic in day

Roman road congestion is as enduring as the Eternal City.