Recently, in a fit of nostalgia, I purchased copies of “Popular Science” and “Popular Mechanics” from the newsstand.
Articles from October 2020
Illustration from "Popular Mechanics," 1947
Louis and Mary Leakey at Olduvai Gorge • Smithsonian Institution (CC0)
Tracking our past with DNA
There was a time, back in the early 1960s, when I was tempted to abandon physics for paleoanthropology — the study of early humans.