Take a trip down the Gowanus Canal with cartographer and citizen scientist Eymund Diegel, who is tracing the natural history and hidden environments of his Brooklyn neighborhood. “What looks like a hellhole actually has scenic potential,” says Diegel. “So you think this could be Venice. You laugh, you say, ‘This guy is out of his mind.’ But technically there is no reason why this could not be one of the prettiest spots in New York City.”
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George M. Whitesides is widely considered to be one of the most influential chemists living today. In this video he talks with us about his research group at Harvard. They work in many areas, inclu...
Megan Rosenbloom is a medical librarian and co-founder of the Death Salon, a group focused on mortality and its role in culture and history. She discusses how American death culture changed after t...
Meet Michelle Francl: Theoretical Chemist, Quantum Mechanic, Roman Catholic. She sits down with us to share her views on why science and religion are not as incompatible as some think. In fact, she...
Joe Palca is one of the best science storytellers out there. In his 20 years as an NPR science correspondent he's covered all sorts of obscure topics, from soccer-playing robots and oyster glue to ...
Peek into the studio of author and illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, who reveals the creative process behind his recent book, Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb.
In his new book, Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air, Richard Holmes approaches the history of ballooning as a biographer would—focusing on the balloonists themselves. He uncovers stories of th...
Historian Bert Hansen discusses his book, Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio, and explains how a confluence of forces in the late 19th century paved the way for a greater appreciation...
Highly active antiretroviral drugs have turned HIV, once a death sentence, into a chronic manageable disease. But many people living with HIV, particularly the young, don’t take their medication pr...
Days after the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to three Japanese-born scientists for their work with LED lights, CHF's Benjamin Gross and retired physicist Jonathan Allen visited The College of...
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's Artifact Lab is an open laboratory where museum visitors get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of conservators at work.
How did 17th-century painters create their masterpieces without Dick Blick, tupperware, or modern conveniences like paint in tubes? To explain the matter Elisabeth Berry Drago, a Ph.D. candidate in...
What would your community look like if sea levels rose by 10 feet? Conceptualized by Eve Mosher, the HighWaterLine traces a chalk line through neighborhoods increasingly threatened by flooding. A p...
Take a peek behind the scenes at Dogfish Head, a craft brewery in Milton, Delaware, to see how they make their signature brews and their "ancient ales."
In 2012 CHF began a collaboration with John Serpentelli's Commercial Animation class at Philadelphia's University of the Arts to create videos that illustrate concepts in chemistry. This year the c...
In May 2013 two conservators from the University of Delaware, Kristin de Ghetaldi and Brian Baade, examined five CHF paintings with an X-ray fluorescence (XRF) scanner and ultraviolet light.
Anna Dhody, Mütter Museum curator and physical and forensic anthropologist walks us through the maintenance of the Mütter Museum's impressive skull collection.
Anna Dhody, Mütter Museum curator and physical and forensic anthropologist walks us through the maintenance of the museum's impressive collection of skulls.
In a cramped lab, historians from Columbia University and the Chemical Heritage Foundation are reconstructing a 16th-century workshop by re-creating recipes from an anonymous craftsperson’s manuscr...
Sensing Change is a combination of exhibit, website, and related programs that offer new visions of the threats and opportunities generated by a changing climate. Visit http://chemheritage.org/sensingchange to learn more.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation's storytellers and friends are your guides as we explore some of the most captivating facets of our facility at 315 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia.