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Our articles, podcasts, and videos uncover hidden stories and seek new perspectives on science and technology.

Explore our digital exhibitions and immerse yourself in stories of discovery, challenge, and change.

From Lavoisier to Carver, Curie to Crick, meet the people behind some of science’s most important milestones.

Listen to interviews with historians, scientists, and health experts and read Distillations stories that provide context for the pandemic.

How do we understand how water moves, what it carries, the ways it can be threatened, and our choices for how to protect it?

Students debate the positive and negative viewpoints of important environmental issues.

Search more than 10,000 of our digitized items, including artifacts, photographs, advertisements, letters, rare books, and more.

This fun and engaging video series features hands-on scientific activities and baking tutorials that you and your family can try at home.

Watch this documentary about the remarkable life and legacy of chemist, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Arnold Beckman.

This outdoor exhibition showcases portraits of the pandemic’s essential workers by photographer Kyle Cassidy.

Learning resources and collection items related to the NHD 2021 theme: “Communication in History: The Key to Understanding.”

Join the Science History Institute as we examine the rare earth elements and their impact on society.

The Science History Institute is proud to celebrate the many contributions of women in science.

Spruce up your home office for your next Zoom meeting with one of our virtual backgrounds.

Add your own artistic embellishments to items from the Institute’s collections of fine art, periodic tables, alchemical illustrations, and more!