Collections Blog
Refrigeration by Evaporation
How heat can make it cooler.
A Colorful Tour
Explore the histories—and legacies—of textile dyes such as indigo, mauve, and Paris green with BOLD curator Lisa Berry Drago.
Greetings from the Nobel Institute!
Postcards of travel and science.
Thinking Outside the (Search) Box
You say “Walchin,” I say “Wallich.” Let’s call the whole thing off.
Dog Days
Pets aren’t allowed in our museum or library, but you’ll find plenty of them in our collections.
Stories Untold
Why oral history is critical for the history of science and engineering.
The Life and Times of CHEMS
A chemistry curriculum with bonds beyond the molecule.
Lost Stories and Missed Opportunities
What we can no longer learn from Yoichiro Ito.
A Crushing Task
On the hunt for the historical sources of an underappreciated field: mechanochemistry.
Leaving Limitations Behind
Scientists’ memories of migration.
The Nuclear Family
Two instruments evoke memories of being a child during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Curators Assemble: Behind the Scenes of ‘Superheroes, Science, and the Environment’
Unmasking how a museum exhibition is made.
Weaving History
What do Qing dynasty paintings reveal about the secret of degumming ramie?
Life on ‘The Mesa’
The Manhattan Project forged a city in the desert at Los Alamos.
Here Be Dragons
Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with some of the legendary creatures in our collections.
I Spy a Tiny Camera Mystery
What happens when an archivist finds film in an old camera?
Subscribing to Science
On the globe- and time-spanning journals of the Othmer Library collection.
Ladies Who Lab: Lesser-Known Women in Science, 1920–1970
Highlighting the work of 20th-century female scientists in our library collection.