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The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) has published its “Feature Stories" format "Research Topics” since 2008. In this series, researchers present individual contributions of one aspect of their research or present a new project.

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No 86
Drawing the project’s logo in the sand.

An African History of Knowledge and Science beyond Academic Conventions

The elderly man draws a circle in the sand of the Sahara Desert. Inside it he places a dot; beside it he draws a vertical line. These, he explains, are the letters “s” and “n” of the Tifinagh a...

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No 84
Detail from a soil-erosion map

Knowledge Systems and Collective Life: A New Approach to the Study of Science and Politics

Climate change, the pandemic, war, migration, economic insecurity—over the past few years, crises seem to have arisen at an accelerating pace, along with urgent calls for action. In this contex...

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No 83
A depiction of oxygen, carbon and water cycles in nature and another with members of a conference raising their hands

The Social Side of a Scientific Breakthrough: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Discovery of Ammonia Synthesis 1830–1930

Ammonia synthesis. Central to the mass production of fertilizer and explosives. It has been billed as the most consequential scientific breakthrough of the twentieth century. Historical perspec...

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No 18
Tatou à trois bandes du Sud (Tolypeutes matacus)

Les voyages du tatou dans les sciences et par les mers

Dans les réserves du muséum d’histoire naturelle du Mans (musée Vert) se trouve un étrange animal venu du passé. Il porte une étiquette ancienne et figure parmi les objets les plus anciennement...

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No 17
Dony Wardhana/Unsplash, FAL

Doctors only started measuring body temperature 200 years ago – here’s why

Over the past year, fever thermometers have become omnipresent. Body temperature is taken in front of shops, at airports, even before visiting a museum – often with ultra-modern devices. So-cal...

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