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.
No, not that kind of pen—this is the kind of pen that saves lives. Discover the history of the EpiPen.
From antibiotics to chemotherapy, modern pharmaceuticals have transformed the experience of illness in the 20th century.
Baseball, track, swimming, biking—is there any sport that hasn’t suffered a PED scandal in the past few years?
Elia Kazan’s 1950 film noir finds new relevance in a moment gripped by pandemic and social unrest.
The MIT chemical engineer and entrepreneur talks about Moderna Therapeutics, a company he helped start, and his work developing a way for vaccines to self-boost in the body.
