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Whaling logs yield clues for modern-day climate studies
It's like the "Old Weather" online project, which employs citizen-scientists in reading digitized reproductions of whaling logs and Navy and Coast Guard ship logs to produce a database of Arctic weather in the 19th and 20th centuries.
By Doug Fraser, The Cape Cod Times
How World War II spurred vaccine innovation
As the Second World War raged in Europe, the U.S. military recognized that infectious disease was as formidable an enemy as any other they would meet on the battlefield. So they forged a new partnership with industry and academia to develop vaccines for the troops.
By Kendall Hoyt, Dartmouth College