Tag: History of science
From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors –...
Greg Eghigian, Penn State
On June 25, 2021, the U.S. government released a nine–page preliminary report on UFOs, or,...
Smelling in stereo – the real reason snakes have flicking, forked...
Kurt Schwenk, University of Connecticut
As dinosaurs lumbered through the humid cycad forests of ancient South America 180 million...
Quarantines have tried to keep out disease for thousands of years
Leslie S. Leighton, Georgia State University
The recent global spread of a deadly coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, has led world leaders to invoke an...
Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved...
Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University
Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms –...
Nikola Tesla: The extraordinary life of a modern Prometheus
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
Match the following figures – Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Nobel and Nikola Tesla – with these biographical facts:
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EXPLORING NATURE
Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels,...
Ramesh Agarwal, Washington University in St. Louis
As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand...
