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Our scholars study a range of topics in the history and social studies of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.
Historian Paul Wolff Mitchell discusses how the city that birthed the nation’s independence became a center of racial science.
Students consider the positive, negative, and conflicting perspectives of plastics through a debate of the issues.
Seventy years ago, a group of Philadelphia scientists and a brave 18-year-old pushed surgery to its final frontier.
The Science History Institute is home to the largest private fellowship program in the historical study of science, medicine, and technology in the United States.
This virtual training workshop introduces researchers to oral history and research interview methodologies.
Why are Black women in America three times more likely to die during childbirth than White ones?
From chemistry sets and comics, to educational board games and TV programs, we often turn to play when it’s time to learn.
Before there was chemistry, there was chymistry, and before there was chymistry, there was alchemy.
Everything has a history, including the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the environments we inhabit.
From the science of flavor to the color of margarine, you’re tasting science with every bite.
From leeches to vaccines, germ theory to gene therapy, the ways we think about health and healing are shaped by how we observe the natural and material world.
Where does science happen? It happens in field sites, factories, workshops, kitchens, and classrooms—not just in laboratories.
From clothes that stretch with your movements to the phone in your pocket, science is embedded in the stuff of everyday life.
Engaging and trustworthy educational resources for student assignments or research.
Our student-led activities provide everything you need to explore the science in your life.
We offer a variety of engaging tours and trainings for your youth, adult, or school group.
A group of medical students wants to take racial bias out of the equation.
Science is a human endeavor, and scientific and technological knowledge is created through the work of many people.
At the Institute, we preserve historical materials related to scientific achievements from around the world.
How did a field meant to reclaim genetics from Nazi abuses wind up a haven for race science?
This virtual training workshop introduces researchers to oral history and research interview methodologies.
When the plague struck San Francisco in 1900, public health officials blamed Chinatown, as if the disease itself had a racial component.
Your giving funds our museum, library, podcasts, magazine, programming, and other initiatives that explain the science we take for granted every day.
Our stories reveal science’s role in a complicated and often strange world.
Visit our free museum and take a journey through the weird and wonderful world of matter and materials.
If there’s no such thing as biological race, why would the FDA approve a drug just for Black patients?
And then goes back. And then back again. And back again…
The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?
A seminal archaeology project proves it is possible to study human remains ethically.