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Three-dimensional anatomical diagram of the brain

When the Brain Deceives Itself

Distillations Podcast

A portrait of Niccolo Paganini on his deathbed.

Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code

Distillations Podcast

Impressionist painting of a lily pond

Could Claude Monet See Like a Bee?

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Science History Institute Announces Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold Will Present 2022 Ullyot Lecture

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Chasing the Clues in Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts

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Collage of Charles Darwin and barnacles

Darwin’s Barnacles

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Interview with Jeremiah McCall

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Photo rendering of ancient greece

Learning History with Video Games

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Postcard from Walther Nernst to Georg Bredig

10K Records Published to Institute’s Digital Collections

Press Release

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Bonus Episode: Interview with Colin Dickey

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Portrait of the Fox sisters, spiritualists in the mid 19th-century.

Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century

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Cover of Lady Ranelagh book by Michelle DiMeo

New Biography by Institute’s Library Director Unveils Life and Legacy of Unknown Woman Scientist

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Roald Hoffmann

Institute Receives National Archives Grant to Digitize Oral Histories of Immigrant Scientists

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Chemistry World: Ida Noddack and the Trouble with Element 43

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Portrait of Lady Ranelagh

Nature: An Incomparable Intellectual Who Fell through the Cracks of History

Media Coverage

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Chewing It Over—and Over and Over and Over

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Black and white photo portrait of woman in uniform

Lou Henry Hoover, Lost in Translation

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Charles Anderson Chases an Eclipse

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The Newton Mess

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Engraving of alchemist and royalty

Dr. Butler and the Quest for the Philosophers’ Stone

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How the Elements Got Their Names

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Illustration of a large laser

The Undying Appeal of Nikola Tesla’s “Death Ray”

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Science History Institute and Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie Announce Winners of 2020 Franklin-Lavoisier Prize

Press Release

Engraved portrait of man

Paracelsus, the Alchemist Who Wed Medicine to Magic

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Woman in laboratory at Hercules Hopewell plant

Women in Science

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Edison wax cylinder phonograph

Distilled #12: Edison’s Record Player

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Marie Curie, Marie Meloney, and the Significance of a Gram of Radium

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Photo of Anton Chekhov with glasses and hat

The Death of Anton Chekhov, Told in Proteins

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Grainy image of a craggy lunar landscape.

Book Club: Let’s Go to the Moon!

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Wizard and Prophet photo illustration

Where Lies Humanity’s Salvation—Conservation or Innovation?

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Drawing of outer space and planets from an advertisement from the Hercules Powder Company

Book Club: A Universe of Dark Matter

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Jennifer Doudna at the 2018 Ullyot lecture

Interview: Jennifer Doudna

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Harry Gold photo illustration

Harry Gold: Spy in the Lab

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composite image of Mendeleev, Meyer, and their periodic systems

An Element of Order

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