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Using 21st-century medicine to maintain a 300-year-old way of life.

Is the mayonnaise substitute Just Mayo the future of food or just another product from the hype machine?

Hippies of the 1960s and 1970s were not necessarily the technophobes they are often made out to be.

In the 1950s, a devious oil company created a television show to flatter industrialists and win their business.

Out of the lab and into the streets.

The highs and lows of lab life.

Lasers, tattoo removal, and second chances.

A discovery by Indian scientist and statesman Meghnad Saha revealed the nature of stars.

How biohackers are using artificial perceptions to enhance reality.

How deodorant became omnipresent in America.

The unnatural history of a carbonated drink.

Alchemists once wrote of chaos, dragons, and spirits, but did they know more about chemistry than we give them credit for?

The unexpected origin of the sports bra.

Filippo Marinetti thought he could change Italian society through its collective belly.

Ernest Lawrence championed the idea of science done collectively. But he failed to champion his own scientists during the Red Scare.

How do we think about a world that doesn’t yet exist?

Once upon a time all births were natural. A lot has happened since then.

Step into the weird and wonderful world of stuffing animals.

A large-format book and digital video installation examining the past, present, and future of waterways like the Delaware and Thames rivers.

Data overload is nothing new. How have people in the past managed their versions of big data?

You are an engineer who developed technology to return plastic to its constituent parts, allowing for fuel recovery.

A large-scale, real-time visualization of air-quality data that draws our attention to the invisible particles surrounding us.

Learn what plastics are, where they come from, their environmental impact, and how they are essential to modern life.

Does history explain why today’s smart machines can seem so dumb?

Because plastic does not biodegrade, it can stay in the environment forever, creating long-term consequences.

You understand concerns about plastic, but getting rid of plastics is not the solution.

The work of polymer scientists has dramatically advanced fields like medicine, transportation, and communications.

You represent the plastics industry—those companies that make and sell plastics.