Information Age (1970 - present)
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Bacteriophages and the Fight Against Cholera in Cold War Afghanistan

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How Climate Change Will Remake the Human Body

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Mario Molina, left, and F. Sherwood Rowland at the University of California, Irvine, January 1975.

HISTORY This Week: The Sky Is Falling
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Dow's Metalam food packaging 1963

Keeping It Fresh, Sustainably: How Flexible Packaging Reduces Food Waste

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illustrations of chimney sweeps

The ‘Mary Poppins’ Cancer

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Scientific apparatus at Dearborn lab

T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation

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Cartoon of a pig in a courtroom

Kangaroo (and Pig and Monkey and Dog and Donkey) Courts

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Water Pics exhibition

Science History Institute Mounts New Outdoor Exhibition
Press Release
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Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

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Institute’s ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Featured in Multiple Media Outlets
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What Causes Alzheimer’s?

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Model of Delaware River Basin, 1964.

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Must-See Museum Exhibits in Philly This Fall
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Research curator Jesse Smith shows off Downstream exhibition

WHYY: Exhibition Traces a 200-Year History of Water Pollution in Philadelphia
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What the All Souls Trilogy Teaches Us about Alchemy, Family, and Knowledge Hierarchy

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18th century mythological painting of Greek goddess Eos and Tithonus

Chasing Immortality

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Interview with Jeremiah McCall

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Learning History with Video Games

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Miners Hauling Electronics Amidst Pollution

C&EN: Rare Earths’ Magic Comes at a Cost
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Take a Watery Journey through History and Science with Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Opening September 14
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Ladies Talking to Ladies about Ladies (in Science)

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Archival photo of Forest Service after the 1910 fires.

Paradise Is Burning

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Why Did Annie Dookhan Lie?

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Bonus Episode: Interview with Colin Dickey

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Let’s Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together

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Image of mural by José Clemente Orozco

2022 Gordon Cain Conference
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Life Sciences Pioneers Dinner: Boston/Cambridge

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ExxonMobil’s Carla Pereira to Receive 18th Annual SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal
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Innovation Day Attendees at Poster Session

Innovation Day 2021
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Roald Hoffmann

Institute Receives National Archives Grant to Digitize Oral Histories of Immigrant Scientists
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Interview with Stéphane Bancel

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C.C. Dennis using mortar and pestle at Dearborn laboratory

Science History Institute Debuts ‘Mechanochemistry: The Science of Crush’ Digital Exhibition
Press Release
Portrait of Lady Ranelagh

Nature: An Incomparable Intellectual Who Fell through the Cracks of History
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Podcast team records at Laurel Hill Cemetery

Welp Magazine: 20 Best Books- and History-Related Podcasts of 2021
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The Death of the Lord God Bird

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Official Netflix movie poster for Space Sweepers

Inverse: Netflix’s Sci-Fi Epic Reveals a Real-Life Cosmic Danger
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Close up photo of contraceptive pill

Why Don’t We Have a Male Birth Control Pill Yet?

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Ad for colored stockings 1955

Digital Exhibitions
Museum
Enrico Fermi Award presentation at the White House 1963

Diplomatic Studies of Science

Event
A nurse in a mask

Hidden City Philadelphia: A Year in Ruins
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Parking Lot or Peking Lot?

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Science History Institute Launches Second Podcast Series
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Tales of Love and Madness from the Periodic Table

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Wendy Zukerman standing on stage holding microphone, wearing t-shirt that reads "science isn't here to make you feel better."

Predicting the Pandemic

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COVID-19 Health Passports: What’s Old Is New Again

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Screenshot of David Cole interview with ABC7 Fort Myers

ABC7 Fort Myers: 19 Visionaries to Discuss Timely Topics at 2021 Imagine Solutions Conference
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Gettingsmart.com: 100 Podcasts You Should Check Out
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Plastic Wares Sales Display Featuring Dow Styron 1949

The Pulse: The Miracle and Menace of Plastic
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Nurse Linda Ruggiero poses for portrait wearing face mask.

COVID’s Hidden Toll on Nurses

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Genre oil painting

Quacks, Plagues, and Pandemics

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Man pulling on a white tube of polymer

Bob Gore’s Cozy Revolution

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Cows in a barn

The Washington Post: The Idea of Herd Immunity to Manage the Coronavirus Should Ring Alarm Bells
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Philadelphia Nurse Sara Cohen in her Personal Protective Equipment

Between Us and Catastrophe

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Mask makers shown with a sewing machine and their dog

Science History Institute Debuts New Outdoor Exhibition
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A nurse in a mask

Between Us and Catastrophe
Museum
Illustration of a large laser

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

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Robert W. Gore demonstrating the expansion of ePTFE, ca. 1982.

Science History Institute Mourns Loss of Bob Gore
Press Release
Photo of Miss Universe host and models standing next to skylab space junk.

Space Junk

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illustration of astronaut

Who Owns Outer Space?

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A man in a mine, wearing breathing apparatus and holding a lantern, finds asphyxiated miners. Wood engraving, ca. 1900.

The Alchemical Origins of Occupational Medicine

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Gabriela Serrato Marks doing fieldwork in a cave.

Bonus Episode: Interview with Gabriela Serrato Marks

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children learning geography in a classroom from 1921.

Science and Disability: Part 2

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Photo of FDR in a wheelchair

Bonus Episode: Interview with Kim Nielsen

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Science and Disability: Part 1

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Innovation Day

Innovation Day 2020
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The Instrumental Chemist
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Interview with Magda Marquet

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A Silent, Savage Menace: Reassessing "Panic in the Streets"

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Robert Langer working on a bed at home while wearing a mask

Interview with Robert Langer

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Mark Stevenson of Thermo Fisher Scientific

Interview with Mark Stevenson

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Alnylam CEO John Maraganore

Interview with John Maraganore

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Interview with Katrine Bosley

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William Haseltine on a stage

Interview with William Haseltine

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Interview with Susan Weiss

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Photo of Susan Desmond-Hellmann at the Fortune Most Powerful Women

Interview with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

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Former Gilead CEO John C. Martin holds bottle of Truvada

Interview with John C. Martin

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Philadelphia Earth Week, Fifty Years On

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Color image of cancer cell

Who Needs a Mammogram?

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Image of the Johnny Horizon environmental test kit

Distilled #13: An Environmental Cowboy from the 1970s

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A dancing couple in unusual clothes

Old Drug Ketamine Offers New Hope for Chronic Pain Sufferers

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Woman in laboratory at Hercules Hopewell plant

Women in Science
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Museum display of alchemical objects

CBS3: Science History Institute Blends History of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Sciences
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Historical photo of Philadelphia's Fairmount Water Works

How Philadelphia’s Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City

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Two children stare at cellphone in front of smokestacks

Choosing a Better High-Tech Future

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Color woodcut of two women on desolate shore

Searching for Schizophrenia

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Illustration highlighting the rare earth elements in the periodic table

Book Club: The Risks and Rewards of Rare Earth Elements

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Two brain scans: one seemingly healthy one and one afflicted by alzheimer's

The Alzheimer’s Copernicus Problem

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Science on TV: An Interview with Ingrid Ockert

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Poison Pill: The Mysterious Die-Off of India’s Vultures

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The Death of Anton Chekhov, Told in Proteins

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Demonstrators in Kuala Lumpur

Activists
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Consumers
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Wind turbines and a herd of cattle

Manufacturers
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Oxides of rare earth elements

Producers
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Chemical abbreviations for 17 rare earth elements

Stewards
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Tollund Man

Bodies in the Bog: The Lindow Mysteries

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