Scientific Discovery
Illustration of periodic table

LiveScience: How Many Chemical Elements Can You Name?
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Suburban house with electric car in driveway

Mashable: Do Something Good for Earth Day
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Innovation Day 2019

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Science on Tap event

Science on Tap Untapped: My Love Affair with Science

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A periodic chart depicting the relative abundance of the elements

Science in the National Park

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Jan Uytenbogaert: The Gold Weigher

Be a Historian!

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Polio vaccine dropped on to sugar lump for child patient.

Book Club: The Story of the Polio Vaccine

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Chad A. Mirkin to Receive Society of Chemical Industry’s 2019 Perkin Medal
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Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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The Parasites in Our Past

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon attendees on laptops

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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Philadelphia Science Festival

Philadelphia Science Festival

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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Jennifer Doudna presents 2018 Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture

Jennifer Doudna Delivers 2018 Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture at the Science History Institute
Press Release
Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Image of microscope from Robert Hooke's "Micrographia : or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses," 1665.

Through the Lens of Disability

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and opioid addict

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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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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A portrait of Charles Darwin by Thomas Johnson

Book Club: Simultaneous Discovery and Darwin’s Ghosts

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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Science on Tap, Untapped Ruins Everything

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Innovation Day 2018

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon: Ada Lovelace Celebration

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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Portrait of alchemist in his lab

Interview: Curator Elisabeth Berry Drago

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Woman and penguins in Antarctica

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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A Study In Scarlet

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Serious Fun

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Second Chances

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From Barbers and Butchers to Modern Surgeons

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For the Love of Science: An Evening of Storytelling

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Science on Tap, Untapped: Schooled by Science

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Putting the Communication Back in Science Communication: An Interview with the Field Museum’s Emily Graslie

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Anticipating the Future: Historical Narratives, Imagination, and Innovation
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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

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Museum at the Science History Institute

Drop-In Tour

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Drop-In Tour

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Drop-In Tour

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Reno

Air Born

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Allen G. Debus

A Celebration of the Life and Library of Allen G. Debus, Extraordinary Historian of Early Science and Medicine

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Museum at the Science History Institute

Drop-In Tour

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Drop-In Tour

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WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

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Fizzy Water

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WikiSalon

WikiSalon

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Museum at the Science History Institute

Drop-In Tour

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The Art of Memory

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An 1822 star map by Alexander Jamieson shows the constellation Telescopium Herschelii, depicted here, ironically, as a refracting telescope.

A Giant of Astronomy

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Saturday Speaker: Arrested Decay: How Ghost Towns Romanticize the History of Mining

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Start Talking Science participants

From STEM to STEAM: An Interview with Marion Leary

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Concrete Solutions

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Data from Disaster

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The Birds, the Bees, and the Froggies

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A group of Amish people standing in a field

High-Tech and Amish

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The Age of Scurvy

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Innovation Day

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Advertisement for various instruments made by Beckman Instruments, Inc. The Institute Collections.

Selling Science in the 20th Century

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First Friday: Death and Taxidermy

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First Friday: The Life and Afterlife of Stuff

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

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Fist and flask graphic

Political Science

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First Friday: The Science of Shelley’s “Frankenstein”

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A Tear Gas Tale

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Things Fall Apart Exhibition Opening

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AIDS

Going Viral

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History Lab
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A Forgotten Star

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How to Make Magical Clothing with Tech

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Science on Tap Un-Tapped: Scientific Malarkey

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Idea Lab: Students Talk Gender and Science

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A presenter demonstrates the power of the elements at the Science History Institute

Fake Out: The Science of Deception

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First Friday: Alchemical Storytime

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Saturday Speaker

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Saturday Speaker: Imagining Solar Solutions

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Saturday Speaker: A Fourth Quarter Performance

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Saturday Speaker

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Saturday Speaker Series
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First Friday: How Beer Fueled Civilization

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First Friday: Science History Tournament

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Science on Tap audience members

Science on Tap: “The Basalt of the Earth (and Mars)”

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Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot.

Things Fall Apart

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WikiSalon

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WikiSalon

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