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8 votes
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The man who tried to fake an element
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The nurse who introduced gloves to the operating room
9 votes -
Autopsy of Adam & Eve: Looking at a selection of paper instruments from the 15th-17th century, at the Royal Society
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Archaeology’s sexual revolution
9 votes -
Vaccinia
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Dr Ken Libbrecht is the world expert on snowflakes, designer of custom snowflakes, snowflake consultant for the movie Frozen - his photos appear on postage stamps all over the world
6 votes -
Promethean beasts - Far from being hardwired to flee fire, some animals use it to their own ends, helping us understand our own pyrocognition
8 votes -
We look at a fascinating object loaned to the Royal Society - a Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder
3 votes -
Women were the unseen healthcare providers of the Middle Ages
7 votes -
Lehmer Factor Stencils: A paper factoring machine before computers
2 votes -
The great American science heist
9 votes -
Vicious doctors and cruel diseases in 18th-Century Jamaica
3 votes -
The doomed mouse utopia that inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’. Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the ’60s and ’70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
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The man who drank Cholera and launched the yogurt craze. Ilya Metchnikoff laid the foundation for modern probiotics.
5 votes -
I found an article that said "The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s experiments." And I thought, no it wasn't. ...was it?
22 votes -
Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography
7 votes -
Only two and a half billion tyrannosaurus rex inhabited the planet in total, researchers say
14 votes -
The last time a vaccine saved America
7 votes -
The unparalleled genius of John von Neumann
13 votes -
The insane engineering of the X-15 (experimental hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft)
5 votes -
What will the world look like in 250 million years? | Map Men
12 votes -
Early illustrations of the nervous system by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
5 votes -
Dogs have been our best friends for at least 23,000 years
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A real-life Lord of the Flies: The troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment
7 votes -
One town, four elements – Ytterby in Sweden is famous for being the single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world
5 votes -
What did the past smell like?
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The remarkable life of Roxie Laybourne, the world’s first forensic ornithologist at the Smithsonian Institution
6 votes -
Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
13 votes -
An archaeology of marijuana
10 votes -
The undying appeal of Nikola Tesla’s “death ray”
7 votes -
What an underground nuclear test actually looks like
8 votes -
Did Europe have more mutations through its history?
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in...
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in hair color than almost anywhere else. Same with eye color. Why is this? Is it just because I interact with more people of European heritage on day to day business, or has Europe actually had more mutations which affect hair color, eye color, etc? Or is it that Europe, being a crossroads has had more people immigrate through it.
If this is racist, it's unintentional, this is just an observation, which I've been unable to find an answer to.
If you have an answer, a link to a paper would be great.
Edit: A point against what I just wrote that I thought of: Asia has both mono and double eyelids, which is something Europe doesn't have. Native americans don't count either for or against, since they immigrated fairly late in a small group, which also explains why almost all native americans are type O
5 votes -
A neat introduction to representation theory and its impact on mathematics
5 votes -
Marie Curie's PhD thesis
8 votes -
The tempest prognosticator
4 votes -
Twitter thread about Doug Geisler, an astronomy grad student who was at Manastash Ridge Observatory forty years ago when Mount St. Helens exploded 140 miles away
@emsque: Exactly #40YearsAgo Doug Geisler was asleep atop Manastash Ridge Observatory. An astronomy grad student, he'd just logged his first excellent night at the telescope for his PhD thesis. He was the only person on the summit, ~90 miles from #MountStHelens... #MSH40
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At the limits of thought: Science today stands at a crossroads--will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created?
3 votes -
Smallpox and the long road to eradication
6 votes -
Fruit trenches: Cultivating subtropical plants in freezing temperatures
7 votes -
Quantum steampunk: 19th-century science meets technology of today
5 votes -
Chloroquine, past and present
3 votes -
A brief history of quantum mechanics
7 votes -
Russian and Egyptian multiplication
5 votes -
The real experiments that inspired Frankenstein
3 votes -
Scientists synthesize the voice of 3000 year old mummy
7 votes -
From their balloons, the first aeronauts transformed our view of the world
5 votes -
That time the Mediterranean Sea disappeared
9 votes -
The most important invention of the 20th century: Transistors
7 votes -
How fungi made all life on land possible
9 votes