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Take a Watery Journey through History and Science with Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Opening September 14
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Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)

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Archival photo of Forest Service after the 1910 fires.

Paradise Is Burning

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Let’s Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together

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Interview with Stéphane Bancel

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Black and white photo of Sonny Boy the Woodpecker

The Death of the Lord God Bird

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Marie Curie in her lab

Crowdfunding Radium

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Enrico Fermi Award presentation at the White House 1963

Diplomatic Studies of Science

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Physician inoculates boy with smallpox vaccine aboard ship

Orphan Vaccines

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Wendy Zukerman standing on stage holding microphone, wearing t-shirt that reads "science isn't here to make you feel better."

Predicting the Pandemic

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COVID-19 Health Passports: What’s Old Is New Again

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ABC7 Fort Myers: 19 Visionaries to Discuss Timely Topics at 2021 Imagine Solutions Conference
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Nurse Linda Ruggiero poses for portrait wearing face mask.

COVID’s Hidden Toll on Nurses

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The Washington Post: The Idea of Herd Immunity to Manage the Coronavirus Should Ring Alarm Bells
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Philadelphia Nurse Sara Cohen in her Personal Protective Equipment

Between Us and Catastrophe

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Space Junk

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Who Owns Outer Space?

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Gabriela Serrato Marks doing fieldwork in a cave.

Bonus Episode: Interview with Gabriela Serrato Marks

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Bonus Episode: Interview with Kim Nielsen

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Science and Disability: Part 1

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The Instrumental Chemist
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Interview with Magda Marquet

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A Silent, Savage Menace: Reassessing "Panic in the Streets"

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Robert Langer working on a bed at home while wearing a mask

Interview with Robert Langer

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Would a Book Lie?

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Interview with Katrine Bosley

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William Haseltine on a stage

Interview with William Haseltine

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Interview with Susan Weiss

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Photo of Susan Desmond-Hellmann at the Fortune Most Powerful Women

Interview with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

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Former Gilead CEO John C. Martin holds bottle of Truvada

Interview with John C. Martin

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Photo from 1918 showing Philadelphia streetcar with sign reading "Spit spreads death"

Spit Spreads Death

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Color map of Soviet- and Western-controlled countries

Spying in Plain Sight: Scientific Diplomacy during the Cold War

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How Philadelphia’s Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City

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Rubella (German Measles) vaccination clinic in 1969

Roe v. Wade v. Rubella

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Choosing a Better High-Tech Future

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Book Club: The Risks and Rewards of Rare Earth Elements

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The Hill: R&D, Not Greenland, Can Solve Our Rare Earth Problem
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Introduction
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Grainy image of a craggy lunar landscape.

Book Club: Let’s Go to the Moon!

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Identification papers from the Bredig archive

Archive Smuggled from Nazi-Era Germany Is Acquired by the Science History Institute
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Rare Earths: The Hidden Cost to Their Magic

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Green Tech Media: A Strategic Approach to Rare Earth Elements as Global Trade Tensions Flare
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Fire in the Cuyahoga River with a firefighter boat blasting water

The Myth of the Cuyahoga River Fire

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High Steaks at the Border

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Making the Deserts Bloom

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Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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GreenBiz: Reimagining Rare Earth Elements in a Sacrifice Zone-Free Future
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Armageddon’s Fingerprints

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Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

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The Mouse That Changed Science

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Nor Any Drop to Drink

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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Roger Eadley-Pryor takes a guided kayak tour of the Schuylkill River led by Drexel chemistry professor Pete DeCarlo and University of Pennsylvania environmental humanities professor Bethany Wiggin.

Imagining a Way Forward

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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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Opioids’ Devastating Return

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Distilled #3: Water Fit for a King

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The Rise and Fall of Vannevar Bush

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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It’s Nothing New: Sexism in the Lab

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Penguins on an iceberg

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
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Study for a never-finished portrait of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Sketch of a Scientist

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

Studies in Sustainability
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Innovation and Regulation on the Open Seas: The Development of Sea-Nine Marine Antifouling Paint

Studies in Materials Innovation
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Here Comes the Spray Man!

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Vintage margarine ad

Butter vs. Margarine

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Portrait of refugee doctor

Refugee Doctors

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Political Science

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Political Scientist

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Richard Nixon and the Rise of American Environmentalism

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Before and after of laser tattoo removal

Rethinking Ink

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Girl with sign at March for Science protest

The Message of the March for Science

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Waging War on Immigration and Science

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Crocidolite asbestos, Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa.

Flexible Meaning
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Arie Haagen-Smit with lab equipment, 1961

The Flavor of Smog

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Lawrence and team, 1938

Large and in Charge

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Imagining a Postcarbon Future

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TOMS and SBUV on display at the Institute. Photo by Gregory Tobias.

TOMS and SBUV
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Liston-Becker Model 28 Exhaust Gas Analyzer, ca. 1956.

Liston-Becker Model 28 Exhaust Gas Analyzer
Research
Electron Capture Detector, 1958. The Institute Collections. Courtesy of James E. Lovelock.

James Lovelock's Electron Capture Detector
Research
Papers of Edward C. Dunlop, 1943.

Edward C. Dunlop Water Analysis, Manhattan Project
Research

Deb Niemeier
Research
Bird with Plastic

Polymer Scientist—Medical Applications
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Bird with Plastic

Society for the Plastics Industry Lobbyist
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Bird with Plastic

Senatorial Aide
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Edward Dunlea calibrating an aerosol mass spectrometer at the Storm Peak Laboratory.

Scientists
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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

REACH Ambler
Research
Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. (NASA)

Waning Interest

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Mary Lowe Good.

Mary Lowe Good
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Oral History Collections
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Babes of Science, a Guest Episode

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David Caruso

David J. Caruso

People

Where Have All the Trailers Gone?

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Soldiers during World War II gathering meteorological data in the Caribbean.

Weather Service

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Harvey Washington Wiley.

Harvey Washington Wiley
Historical Profile
Linus Pauling during an oral history interview conducted by the Chemical Heritage Foundation, now the Science History Institute, in 1987.

Linus Carl Pauling
Historical Profile