Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
Many of us think pumping is a new part of motherhood, but some fascinating 19th-century objects from our collection show the practice has been around (in some form) for a long time.
Join Distillations podcast hosts Lisa Berry Drago and Alexis Pedrick as Science History Institute staff members share their favorite objects from our museum, archival, and library collections.
On this week’s episode of Distillations we’re talking about what the nose knows.
For more than a century ozone therapy has been a source of false hope for the sick and ill-gotten gains for the crooked.
Whether it’s preventing illness by vaccines or avoiding germs, this episode is about getting sick and staying healthy.
Rare earth elements make modern devices faster, brighter, and lighter, but it will take the creaky gears of government to make their production cleaner and more equitable.
In the 1960s RCA created the world’s first liquid-crystal displays. How did the company fail to cash in on one of the modern world’s most ubiquitous technologies?
Depicting the everyman of the scientific enterprise.
