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Governing Nitrogen Species: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Inequalities, and the Rise of Earth-System Governance

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Harnessing the Earth’s Heat and Power: Oil Spillovers and the Development of Iceland’s Geothermal Resources, 1930s–1970s

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Amazing Adaptations of Aquatic Insects

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Collecting “Queer” Specimens: Settler Botany and Male Intimacies in Interwar Hawaii

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Three Mile Island

Three Mile Island: On the Closure and Decommissioning of a Nuclear Power Plant

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Enrico Fermi Award presentation at the White House 1963

Diplomatic Studies of Science: The Interplay of Science, Technology, and International Affairs after the Second World War

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Institute President David Cole Delivers Talk on History of Inventions at Imagine Solutions Conference
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Science History Institute Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Papers of Georg and Max Bredig
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Science History Institute Launches Second Podcast Series
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The Thing about Alchemy . . . Secrets, Mixtures, and Discerning the Alchemical in the Potter’s Art

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News at IU Bloomington: Newton Watermark Project Could Help Date Books More Accurately
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Institute President David Cole to Speak at Imagine Solutions Conference 2021
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Page from Isaac Newton’s copy of the Preparation of the [Sophick] Mercury for the [Philosophers’] Stone

Science History Institute Receives NEH/AHRC Grant
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The Applied Arts of Alchemy

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The Applied Arts of Alchemy
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The Washington Post: The Idea of Herd Immunity to Manage the Coronavirus Should Ring Alarm Bells
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Book of Abstracts
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Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

BBC: The People Solving Mysteries during Lockdown
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Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Readers Rapidly Identify Renowned Scientist
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Anonymous Too Long—STL Women Shorted on Credit for Scientific Work
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Michael Somogyi and Unidentified Women in Laboratory

Massive Science: Can You Help Identify Unnamed Women Scientists of the Past?
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Pedagogy, Popularization, and the Public Understanding of Science
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Guide for Applicants
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Daniel Jon Mitchell

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Identification papers from the Bredig archive

Archive Smuggled from Nazi-Era Germany Is Acquired by the Science History Institute
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How Oral History Opens Up the Past

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Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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The Mouse That Changed Science

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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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A portrait of Charles Darwin by Thomas Johnson

Book Club: Simultaneous Discovery and Darwin’s Ghosts

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Mary Mark Ockerbloom

WikiSpeaks: What It Means to Be a Wikipedian in Residence

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Portrait of alchemist in his lab

Interview: Curator Elisabeth Berry Drago

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The Mystery of Yellow Rain

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The Alchemist and His Wife, ca. 1928, by Jacques Hammerer, after 17th-century original by David Ryckaert III.

Age of Alchemy
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Cat Craze

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Carleen Hutchins: Rogue Luthier

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An Interview with the Field Museum’s Emily Graslie

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The Yoga Pant Problem

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Plate 7: Arrangements of elastic fluid particles

What’s in a Logo?

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Braving the Elements: Why Mendeleev Left Russian Soil for American Oil

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Letter written by 17th-century scientist Lady Ranelagh

The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh

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Data from Disaster

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Portrait of Ada Lovelace

Labor of Lovelace: A Children’s Introduction to a Programming Giant

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A Legacy of Listening

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Conserving the Stories They Tell

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How Drinking Beer Is in Our DNA: An Interview with Jessica Zinskie

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Political Science

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A Tear Gas Tale

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Lee Berry with Ambler interviewee Victor Romano.

Tips for Recording Your Family History

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A 16th-century engraving of an alchemist adding a scorpion to a mixture. (Wellcome Library)

The Language of Alchemy

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Best of 2016: Insiders vs. Outsiders in Medicine

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Human-Centered Therapy . . . with Robots

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This Is Not Your Great-Grandfather’s Taxidermy

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Arnold Thackray

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Speaking in Tongues

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Gildo M. dos Santos

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Babes of Science, a Guest Episode

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Benjamin Gross

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Beauty and Brawn

Identity Politics

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New Science, Old Tricks

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Enrico Fermi Award presentation at the White House 1963

Gordon Cain Conference
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Participants of the REACH Ambler project, 2014.

Center for Applied History
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Research fellow Eva Hemmungs Wirtén.

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Engraving of Felix Meritis Society gathering, 1800s

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The Ancient Chemistry Inside Your Taco

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Early blood transfusion experiment

Power in the Blood: When Religion and Medicine Meet in Your Veins

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Stealing Industry Secrets

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Alex Wellerstein

Telling Secrets

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Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century

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14-ton Electromagnet

Going Dutch

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