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From Gore-Tex to do-it-yourself kits, hear how synthetic fibers have transformed the outdoor industry.

Hear from Philadelphia’s leading fashion sustainability experts in this engaging panel talk on durable, reusable, and recyclable apparel.

Raechel Lutz and Conevery Bolton Valencius analyze Hollywood films that feature energy as historical objects.

Shireen Hamza examines the incorporation of elements of non-Western medicine by biomedical institutions in the United States.

Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann shares an untold story about science and immigration.

From plastics circularity in healthcare to changing modes of recycling, the 2023 T. T. Chao Symposium on Innovation revealed new perspectives on plastics.

Historian Paul Wolff Mitchell discusses how the city that birthed the nation’s independence became a center of racial science.

Watch former UCL curator Subhadra Das discuss the work of the little-known Victorian scientist who coined the term ‘eugenics.’

Watch a recording of medical historian Deirdre Cooper Owens discuss her work at the intersection of science, race, and gender.

Louis Gerdelan shows how interactions among scientists, doctors, astrologers, and churchmen formed the foundations of modern disaster reporting.