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The population geneticists who led the Human Genome Diversity Project wanted to “hammer the final nail in the coffin of race,” but instead they wound up reaffirming it.
How protected lands inspire scientific pursuits.
For decades, nearly all race science was funded by one man. His goal? To ensure the intellectual continuity of a dubious field.
When yellow fever struck the city in 1793, faulty race logic almost destroyed it.
The surprising scientific and religious origins of the myth of race.
By monitoring sewage, scientists can track disease outbreaks in near real time. But will the technology leave long-term privacy risks in its wake?
The podcast and magazine project explores the historical roots and persistent legacies of racism in American science and medicine.
A podcast and magazine project that explores the historical roots and persistent legacies of racism in American science and medicine.
Can scrutinizing the ailments of historical figures really teach us anything?
Material evidence for a Frankfurt second edition of ‘Utriusque cosmi maioris.’
Restoring the legacy of a physical chemistry pioneer.
Explore scientist John Calhoun’s mouse utopia and what it can tell us about the ways we impose lessons for society onto lab experiments.
Or will the scientist’s 200th birthday be his last hurrah?
The correspondence of Ernst Berl and the Bredig family.
The story of Thomas Schall, a U.S. Congressman dedicated to reforming our messy, lopsided, archaic, and maddingly inconsistent monthly calendar.
Dow’s gamble on magnesium helped push the boundaries of human exploration and launched an ocean of consumer products.
Explore the contradictions of Korea’s biggest natural wildlife refuge: the war-ravaged border between the North and South known as the DMZ.
How yellow fever outbreaks in the early United States anticipated much of what we lament about the COVID-19 era.
Sam Kean explores how the legendary gardener’s reputation as the patron saint of the American wilderness ignores his boozy origins.
Racialized and economically oppressed children are disproportionately poisoned by lead’s remnants in the built environment.
Soviet geneticist Nikolai Vavilov led an ideologically perilous campaign to rid the world of famine.
The story behind notorious surgeon Walter Freeman’s contempt for his father, failures with his sons, and obsession with lobotomies.
Can a White House conference muster the political will to address the nation’s food insecurity and obesity crises? A summit from 1969 offers clues.
The CD drive, that is. Meet some of our newest born-digital collections.
Encountering rare earths in art, environments, and the phone in my pocket.
Digitized 16mm film and VHS tapes include promotional videos, science education series, and a silent recording from the 1920s featuring Marie Curie.
Incoming class includes scholars in our new two-year curatorial fellowship program.
The dual collaboration between a public-facing organization and a university is the first of its kind for the society.
Meet Gabriela and Jesse, coeditors of the Institute’s new collections blog.
The pirate-turned-naturalist-turned-pirate-again inspired generations of British writers and scientists.