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From leeches to vaccines, germ theory to gene therapy, the ways we think about health and healing are shaped by how we observe the natural and material world.
Where does science happen? It happens in field sites, factories, workshops, kitchens, and classrooms—not just in laboratories.
From clothes that stretch with your movements to the phone in your pocket, science is embedded in the stuff of everyday life.
Engaging and trustworthy educational resources for student assignments or research.
Our student-led activities provide everything you need to explore the science in your life.
We offer a variety of engaging tours and trainings for your youth, adult, or school group.
A group of medical students wants to take racial bias out of the equation.
Science is a human endeavor, and scientific and technological knowledge is created through the work of many people.
At the Institute, we preserve historical materials related to scientific achievements from around the world.
How did a field meant to reclaim genetics from Nazi abuses wind up a haven for race science?
This virtual training workshop introduces researchers to oral history and research interview methodologies.
When the plague struck San Francisco in 1900, public health officials blamed Chinatown, as if the disease itself had a racial component.
Your giving funds our museum, library, podcasts, magazine, programming, and other initiatives that explain the science we take for granted every day.
Our stories reveal science’s role in a complicated and often strange world.
Visit our free museum and take a journey through the weird and wonderful world of matter and materials.
If there’s no such thing as biological race, why would the FDA approve a drug just for Black patients?
And then goes back. And then back again. And back again…
The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?
A seminal archaeology project proves it is possible to study human remains ethically.
Anthropological museums were built on the bodies of marginalized, non-consenting people. Can they ever exist ethically?
The population geneticists who led the Human Genome Diversity Project wanted to “hammer the final nail in the coffin of race,” but instead they wound up reaffirming it.
For decades, nearly all race science was funded by one man. His goal? To ensure the intellectual continuity of a dubious field.
When yellow fever struck the city in 1793, faulty race logic almost destroyed it.
The surprising scientific and religious origins of the myth of race.
A podcast and magazine project that explores the historical roots and persistent legacies of racism in American science and medicine.
Explore scientist John Calhoun’s mouse utopia and what it can tell us about the ways we impose lessons for society onto lab experiments.
How an antarctic scientific expedition turned deadly thanks to an unlikely source: dog liver.
We all know how much the automobile changed the world for people. This episode explores how drastically it changed—and harmed—wildlife.
The story of Thomas Schall, a U.S. Congressman dedicated to reforming our messy, lopsided, archaic, and maddingly inconsistent monthly calendar.
Explore the contradictions of Korea’s biggest natural wildlife refuge: the war-ravaged border between the North and South known as the DMZ.