Tag: History of science
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
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
