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Detailed view of forensic DNA crime scene kit

How New DNA Sleuthing Can Expose Dangerous Killers—and You

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Gordon Moore at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2005.

Science History Institute Remembers Intel Cofounder, Board of Advisors Member Gordon Moore
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Frances Arnold headshot

Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold to Receive 2023 SCI Perkin Medal
Press Release
podart 5 part 2

The African Burial Ground

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

The Murky Ethics of Wastewater Surveillance

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Selfie of Carolyn Bertozzi with laptop

Chemical Biologist Carolyn Bertozzi Among Trio Awarded 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Masamichi Yamashita

Bucks County Library Hosts Virtual Talk by Institute’s Roger Turner
News
Xtreme5 Teen Tech Summit

Future STEM Leaders Gather at Science History Institute for Xtreme5 Teen Tech Summit
News
Shiny underside of a shaped CD 1990s

There Are More Fish in the C
A horse trotting. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge.

The Murderer Who Made Movies Possible

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Innovation Day 2021 Poster Session

Innovation Day 2022
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Ad for colored stockings 1955

Ex Libris Universum: Museum Tour
Media Coverage
A portrait of Niccolo Paganini on his deathbed.

Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code

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Two floating men working in space station

Stuck Inside

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Black and white photo of man in suit

Matthew Carey Lea and the Origins of Mechanochemistry

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Collections Deep Dive at the museum

Up Close
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Frances Arnold headshot

Science History Institute Announces Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold Will Present 2022 Ullyot Lecture
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video game renderings of cleopatra, teddy roosevelt, and Ghandi

Interview with Jeremiah McCall

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Photo rendering of ancient greece

Learning History with Video Games

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Downstream web banner

Take a Watery Journey through History and Science with Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Opening September 14
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Picture of Colin Dickey

Bonus Episode: Interview with Colin Dickey

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Portrait of the Fox sisters, spiritualists in the mid 19th-century.

Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century

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Innovation Day Attendees at Poster Session

Innovation Day 2021
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Photo of Stephane Bancel

Interview with Stéphane Bancel

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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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Official Netflix movie poster for Space Sweepers

Inverse: Netflix’s Sci-Fi Epic Reveals a Real-Life Cosmic Danger
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Image of sam Kean

Tales of Love and Madness from the Periodic Table

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Downstream museum view

Downstream
Illustration of a large laser

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

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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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Photo of FDR in a wheelchair

Bonus Episode: Interview with Kim Nielsen

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Catalogue image of microscopes

Science and Disability: Part 1

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Innovation Day

Innovation Day 2020
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The Instrumental Chemist video title image

The Instrumental Chemist
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Painting of shipwreck in rough seas

Reginald Fessenden and the Invention of Sonar

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Edison wax cylinder phonograph

Distilled #12: Edison’s Record Player

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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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Posed man looking at spotlight projection

How RCA Fell Flat on Flat-Screen TVs

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Grainy image of a craggy lunar landscape.

Book Club: Let’s Go to the Moon!

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miners hauling electronics that are causing pollution

Rare Earths: The Hidden Cost to Their Magic

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Innovation Day Poster Session

Innovation Day 2019
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Rare earth elements

Rare Earth Elements Project
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Photo collage of JFK

Making the Deserts Bloom

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Armageddon’s Fingerprints

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Lab mouse in red Harvard sweater/bowtie

The Mouse That Changed Science

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Nor Any Drop to Drink

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Image of microscope from Robert Hooke's "Micrographia" 1665

Through the Lens of Disability

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stereoscope with stereograph

Distilled #4: Virtual Reality in the 19th Century

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Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

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Innovation Day 2018
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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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Second Chances

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

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Anticipating the Future: Historical Narratives, Imagination, and Innovation
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Vintage poster of people watching TV

Sci-Fi Radio Drama

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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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Concrete Solutions

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Data from Disaster

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How to Mine an Asteroid

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Still image from Rethinking Ink animation

Rethinking Ink

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A group of Amish people standing in a field

High-Tech and Amish

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Ladies Who Launch

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Love, Peace, and Technoscience

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Innovation Day 2017
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Arnold O. Beckman and Ken Peters

A Covert Success Story

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Men wearing gas masks

A Tear Gas Tale

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Before and after of laser tattoo removal

Rethinking Ink

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Print of Giovanni Francesco Camocio's "Humani Victus Instrumenta"

Making Senses

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1950s ad for Mum cream deodorant

The Smell of Shame

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Grindhouse Wetware’s Northstar device in 2015.

Hacking Humans

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Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot.

Things Fall Apart

Museum
Rachel Carson on Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, 1945.

Drop-In Tours
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Crocidolite asbestos, Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa.

Flexible Meaning
Museum
Diagram of sports bra

Second Skin

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Ken Shoulder with drone, 1993

The Frontiersman

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Illustration of childbirth

(Natural) Childbirth

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Electron Capture Detector, 1958. The Institute Collections. Courtesy of James E. Lovelock.

James Lovelock's Electron Capture Detector
Research

Kenneth Davis
Research
Particle Falls at the Wilma Theater, 2013.

Particle Falls
Research

Instruments
Research

Behind the Beaker
Research

Brian Dick

People

Roger Eardley-Pryor

People

Deanna Day

People
Garry Kasparov plays a computer in chess

Thinking Machines: The Search for Artificial Intelligence

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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Scientific Biographies
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Oral History bound books

Oral History Collections
Collections

Ting Tsung Chao

People

Where Have All the Trailers Gone?

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Carl von Linde.

Carl von Linde
Historical Profile
Gordon Moore at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2005.

Gordon E. Moore
Historical Profile
Richard Smalley with a model of a buckyball.

Richard E. Smalley, Robert F. Curl, and Harold W. Kroto
Historical Profile
Irving Langmuir at home enjoying Harper’s Magazine. Science History Institute

Irving Langmuir and Katharine Burr Blodgett
Historical Profile
Robert S. Langer.

Robert S. Langer
Historical Profile
Paul Berg.

Paul Berg
Historical Profile
Stanley N. Cohen.

Herbert W. Boyer and Stanley N. Cohen
Historical Profile