Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
Eleanor Roosevelt thanks a chemical engineering firm in Philadelphia for manufacturing water for the king and queen of England on their visit to the United States.
Join Distillations podcast hosts Lisa Berry Drago and Alexis Pedrick as Science History Institute staff members share their favorite objects from our museum, archival, and library collections.
Have you ever visited a new place and noticed that the water was different?
In showing that cholera spreads through tainted water, an English doctor helped lay epidemiology’s foundations.
Can you really collapse and wake up speaking a totally new language?
When French authorities learned about some missing uranium, they thought someone had stolen it to make rogue atomic bombs. It turned out to be more incredible than that.
The downside of using genetic genealogy to fight crime.
