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.
David Caruso reviews Leo B. Slater’s War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the 20th Century.
We continue the three-part series A Day in the Life, today spotlighting the common chemistry of noontime.
In the 1920s a pioneering journalist summoned the might of American women to revive a Nobelist’s career.
In the 1930s a pride- and faith-fueled dispute between two Nobel Prize–winning physicists spilled onto the front page of the New York Times.
To fight air pollution, officials first had to convince Californians that carmakers were the enemy, not cars.
