Experiments
Composite of BiDil pills and historical image

Black Pills

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graphic for Bad Blood episode 6

Bad Blood, Bad Science

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Color photo of Chinese restaurant sign

The Rotten Science Behind the MSG Scare

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A young boy and a girl in a classroom, holding a sign that reads, "Polio Pioneers"

Fighting through the Fear

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Black and white photo of man in suit

Matthew Carey Lea and the Origins of Mechanochemistry

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Philly Materials Day Online: Experiments for Home
Media Coverage
C.C. Dennis using mortar and pestle at Dearborn laboratory

Science History Institute Debuts ‘Mechanochemistry: The Science of Crush’ Digital Exhibition
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Illustration of a young woman with skin lesions

Joseph Goldberger’s Filth Parties

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Jesse Gelsinger photo illustration

The Death of Jesse Gelsinger, 20 Years Later

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Nor Any Drop to Drink

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Image of microscope from Robert Hooke's "Micrographia" 1665

Through the Lens of Disability

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and prison-hospital for addicts

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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Probing the Mysteries of Human Digestion

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Gone to the Dogs

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Constructing Life

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Old Brew, New Brew

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A Study In Scarlet

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès’s Recipe for Margarine

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The Birds, the Bees, and the Froggies

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Print of Giovanni Francesco Camocio's "Humani Victus Instrumenta"

Making Senses

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Grindhouse Wetware’s Northstar device in 2015.

Hacking Humans

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Nitrous oxide party

High Times

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Arie Haagen-Smit with lab equipment, 1961

The Flavor of Smog

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Lawrence and team, 1938

Large and in Charge

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Ken Shoulder with drone, 1993

The Frontiersman

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Walter Potter's Monkey Riding a Goat

Death and Taxidermy

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Millipore portable water-testing kit. The Institute Collections. Photo by Conrad Erb

Field Water Testing and Analysis Instruments
Research
Electron Capture Detector, 1958. The Institute Collections. Courtesy of James E. Lovelock.

James Lovelock's Electron Capture Detector
Research
Papers of Edward C. Dunlop, 1943.

Edward C. Dunlop Water Analysis, Manhattan Project
Research
Clara Esther Hartley lab notes. Special Collections, the Institute

Clara Esther Hartley Lab Notes
Research
Wind Map, created by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Wind Map
Research
Calendar of Rain at the Sensing Change opening, 2013.

Calendar of Rain
Research
Coloring Chemistry

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Instruments
Research
cosmetic ad showing early 20th century woman

The Secrets of Life

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Nicholas Shapiro

People

Oral History Collections
Collections
pH Meter Illustration

Virtual Chemistry
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Portrait of Berzelius. Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Jöns Jakob Berzelius
Historical Profile
Roy J. Plunkett with a cable insulated with Teflon and a Teflon-coated muffin tin.

Roy J. Plunkett
Historical Profile
Lavoisier. Engraved by François Séraphin Delpech, after a drawing by Belliart, after the painting by Jacques Louis David.

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
Historical Profile
Professor Gay-Lussac, F.R.S.: Membre de l'Institut, Professor at the University of Paris &c.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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Portrait of Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle
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Joseph Priestley
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Portrait of Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur
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Lise Meitner.

Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann
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George Washington Carver, Tuskegee Institute, 1906.

George Washington Carver
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Photographs
Collections
Lead Balloon Contest

Up, Up, and Away

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Natural Magick

Laws of Attraction

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John Mayow’s “nitro-aerial particles” in action

Carried Away

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