Policy
Color map of dense city crossed with red lines and blue dots

The Murky Ethics of Wastewater Surveillance

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innate hero

Science History Institute Launches ‘Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race’
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The front page of a newspaper from 1928 proposing a 13-month calendar

The Blind Visionary

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Black and white photo of demonstrators sitting with a sign

Confronting America’s Food Emergencies

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Chemistry International: Downstream
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Slide from The Mighty Delaware lecture 1954

Institute Awarded Turning Points in History Grant from Villanova’s Lepage Center

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Scientist Percy Julian in a lab 1930s

Institute Receives NEH SHARP Grant for ‘Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race’ Project
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Archival photo of Forest Service after the 1910 fires.

Paradise Is Burning

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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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Mock-up photo of a cellphone displaying a QR code

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

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Nurse Linda Ruggiero poses for portrait wearing face mask.

COVID’s Hidden Toll on Nurses

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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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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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Satirical cartoon on food adulteration from Puck magazine

Harvey Wiley’s Fierce Pursuit of Food Safety

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Group of Beckman Instruments scientists standing in a lab and smiling at the camera

Disability and the Myth of the Independent Scientist

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Fire in the Cuyahoga River with a firefighter boat blasting water

The Myth of the Cuyahoga River Fire

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Wizard and Prophet photo illustration

Where Lies Humanity’s Salvation—Conservation or Innovation?

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Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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Photo illustration of woman with migraine

Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

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Jennifer Doudna gives the 2018 Ullyot Lecture

Book Club: Cracking Creation with Jennifer Doudna

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and opioid addict

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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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

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Photo illustration of poppy flowers and prison-hospital for addicts

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction

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Opioids’ Devastating Return

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Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Penguins on an iceberg

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Feast or Famine

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Fist and flask graphic

Political Science

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Political Scientist

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Richard Nixon and the Rise of American Environmentalism

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Girl with sign at March for Science protest

The Message of the March for Science

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Waging War on Immigration and Science

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Arie Haagen-Smit with lab equipment, 1961

The Flavor of Smog

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Imagining a Postcarbon Future

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Bird with Plastic

Polymer Scientist—Medical Applications
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Bird with Plastic

Pro−Plastic Bag Advocate
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Edward Dunlea calibrating an aerosol mass spectrometer at the Storm Peak Laboratory.

Scientists
Research
Waters: Glaciers and Bucks by Diane Burko.

Art
Research
Bird with Plastic

Case Study for Waste: Trash and Treasure
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Bird with Plastic

Game Home
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Students debating in a classroom

Science Matters: Role-Playing Games for Students
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Mary Lowe Good.

Mary Lowe Good
Historical Profile

Modern Books and Journals
Collections
David Caruso

David J. Caruso

People
Linus Pauling during an oral history interview conducted by the Chemical Heritage Foundation, now the Science History Institute, in 1987.

Linus Carl Pauling
Historical Profile
Mario Molina, left, and F. Sherwood Rowland at the University of California, Irvine, January 1975.

Mario Molina
Historical Profile
Harvey Washington Wiley.

Harvey Washington Wiley
Historical Profile
Susan Solomon in her NOAA office in Boulder, Colorado, next to a globe showing Antarctica.

Susan Solomon
Historical Profile
Pollution hangs in the air over a United States Steel Corporation coke plant in Clairton, Pennsylvania, April 1973. Previously it had been cited for violations of the Clean Air Act.

TSCA: From Inception to Reform
Research
Alex Wellerstein

Telling Secrets

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2007 Griffith Park fire in Los Angeles

The Best of Intentions

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Clean Machine

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Detail of a burlap sack for H. Kohnstamm and Company’s Simplex Soap. When recently laundered clothes started to disintegrate in the early 20th century, angry customers turned to laundries, which in turn looked to soap manufacturers, such as Kohnstamm, for

Going to Pieces: A Detective Story

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Glenn Beck

Duck and Cover: Science Journalism in the Digital Age

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1948 margarine advertisement

Butter-in-Law

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Promises, Promises

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On Poisoned Ground

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A worker holding asbestos

Changes in the Air

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Rachel Carson

Loud and Clear

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Apothecary-style bottles

Vitamins Come to Dinner

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A Better Pill

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Fast Times: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of Amphetamine

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Social Science

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Playing It Safe?

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Credible Witnesses

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Robert McNeil

The Philanthropist in the Pharmacy

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Vital (T)issues

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Single-serve packets of sugar and sugar substitutes

The Pursuit of Sweet

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The Three Wise Men and the Three Monkeys by Raul de la Nuez

Protecting Scientific Integrity

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Jody A. Roberts

Ask the Expert: Decoding Warning Labels

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A phrenological map of the brain

Entered into Evidence

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Rabbits in a cosmetics testing laboratory

Bracing for the Ban

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Nobel laureate Al Gore presenting his famous slide show on climate change

The Climate Change Conversation

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Scientific Apparatus at Dearborn Laboratory Facility 1934

The Greening of Chemistry

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