Information Age (1970 - present)
Soft-focus photo of a vintage microphone and headphones

How Oral History Opens Up the Past

Distillations Article
Jesse Gelsinger photo illustration

The Death of Jesse Gelsinger, 20 Years Later

Distillations Article
Museum display of Science and Disability exhibit

WHYY: New Philly Exhibit Celebrates Lives, Contributions of Scientists with Disabilities
Media Coverage
Fire in the Cuyahoga River with a firefighter boat blasting water

The Myth of the Cuyahoga River Fire

Distillations Podcast
Vaughn Bell poses with her work Village Green.

Sensing Change Exhibition
Museum
Chao Symposium

T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation

Event
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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Cow photo illustration

High Steaks at the Border

Distillations Podcast
Painting of William and Caroline Herschel standing in a study, surrounded by star charts and telescopes

Making Space for Women in Astronomy

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Suburban house with electric car in driveway

Mashable: Do Something Good for Earth Day
Media Coverage
Attendees at our monthly WikiSalon

Technical.ly Philadelphia: Get a Primer on Fact Checking and Digital Literacy from this Wikipedian in Residence
Media Coverage
Innovation Day Poster Session

Innovation Day 2019
Visit
Unidentified Beckman Instruments employees

History Lab: Disability and the Myth of the Independent Scientist

Event
Laboratory staff working with radioactive material

History Lab: Moving beyond Scientific Genius

Event
Oil-immersion microscope

History Lab: Through the Lens of Disability

Event
Photo collage of JFK

Making the Deserts Bloom

Distillations Podcast
Science on Tap event

Science on Tap Untapped: My Love Affair with Science

Event
A periodic chart depicting the relative abundance of the elements

Science in the National Park

Event
Jan Uytenbogaert: The Gold Weigher

Be a Historian!

Event
Close-up view of valves, pipes, and fittings

Whose Knowledge Counts? Scientists with Cognitive Differences

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Chao Symposium

T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation

Event

Armageddon’s Fingerprints

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Photo illustration of woman with migraine

Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

Distillations Podcast

The Parasites in Our Past

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Jennifer Doudna gives the 2018 Ullyot Lecture

Book Club: Cracking Creation with Jennifer Doudna

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Philadelphia Science Festival

Philadelphia Science Festival

Event

Harry versus the Volcano

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3-D Bioprinting: Automating Biology

Event

Life Sciences Pioneers Dinner: San Francisco Bay Area

Event

Life Sciences Pioneers Dinner: Boston

Event
Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

Distillations Podcast

Family Practice

Distillations Article

Nor Any Drop to Drink

Distillations Article

Saving Old Movies

Distillations Article
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

Distillations Podcast
Roger Eadley-Pryor takes a guided kayak tour of the Schuylkill River led by Drexel chemistry professor Pete DeCarlo and University of Pennsylvania environmental humanities professor Bethany Wiggin.

Imagining a Way Forward

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and meeting chairs

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

Distillations Podcast
Photo illustration of poppy flowers and prison-hospital for addicts

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

Distillations Podcast
Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

Distillations Article

Innovation Day 2018
Visit

Opioids’ Devastating Return

Distillations Article

Making Medicines: The Journey from CRISPR Technology into CRISPR Medicines

Event

The Art of M&A: Lessons from the Field

Event
Jennifer A. Doudna

Ullyot Public Affairs Lecture: Jennifer A. Doudna, “CRISPR Biology and Biotechnology: The Future of Genome Editing”

Event

Gone to the Dogs

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Constructing Life

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Styrofoam, a Practical and Problematic Creation

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Old Brew, New Brew

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Sweating Blood

Distillations Article

How Does DNA Testing Work, and What Secrets Does It Expose?

Event
Mary Mark Ockerbloom

WikiSpeaks: What It Means to Be a Wikipedian in Residence

Distillations Article

Zebrafish, a Model Organism

Event
Rebecca Kamen

Scientific Discovery through Art

Event

Stories of Disability in the Lab

Event
Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

Distillations Podcast

It’s Nothing New: Sexism in the Lab

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RHex marches up a dune in Pismo Beach, California, carrying a mechanical sensor that scrapes the dune’s surface to detect how much force is needed for the wind to pick up grains of sand.

Thinking on Your Feet—or with Them

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

Distillations Podcast

Life Sciences Pioneers Dinner: San Diego

Event

Life Sciences Pioneers Dinners
A detail of the inside cover art from the 1831 edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Book Club: Frankenstein in the 21st Century

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History Lab: Teacher Workshop

Event
Woman and penguins in Antarctica

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

Distillations Podcast

The Mystery of Yellow Rain

Distillations Article

Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
Research

Tummy Trouble

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A Study In Scarlet

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Serious Fun

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Hard Work and Happenstance

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Second Chances

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Cat Craze

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Heritage Day

Event
Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

Distillations Podcast

Carleen Hutchins: Rogue Luthier

Distillations Article

Where to Put It All? Some Thoughts about Collections, Museums, and History

Event
Chao Symposium

T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation

Event

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

Distillations Article
Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

Distillations Podcast

Anticipating the Future: Historical Narratives, Imagination, and Innovation
Visit
Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

Studies in Sustainability
Research
Innovation and Regulation on the Open Seas: The Development of Sea-Nine Marine Antifouling Paint

Studies in Materials Innovation
Research

History Lab: Imagination and Data­­

Event

History Lab: Communities and Data

Event

History Lab: Bodies and Data

Event
Two cups of coffee to-go

Chemistry in Your Coffee Mug

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The Elements of Fiction

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Vintage poster of people watching TV

Sci-Fi Radio Drama

Distillations Podcast
Philippe Mercier’s The Sense of Smell (1744–1747).

The Scent of a Molecule

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Vintage margarine ad

Butter vs. Margarine

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Stradivari and the Search for Brilliance

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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

Distillations Article

How to Mine an Asteroid

Distillations Video
Portrait of child, grandmother and two cats

Grandmothers Matter

Distillations Podcast
Portrait of Ada Lovelace

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

Distillations Article

A Legacy of Listening

Distillations Article
Portrait of refugee doctor

Refugee Doctors

Distillations Podcast

Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures

Event
9/11 memorial column

Conserving the Stories They Tell

Distillations Article