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The Catholic Church didn’t finally officially recognize their own error until John Paul II in 1992. Introduction...
It all started with the realization that we can describe the dynamics of the universe within a...
We have more neurons in our cortices than any other species, courtesy of an early technology –...
It was a matter of the right eclipse, the right place, and the right time. By Charles...
Humboldt almost invented the electric battery– in fact, he came very close. Alexander von Humboldt was born...
The first recorded observations of comets, solar eclipses, and supernovae were made in China. Introduction The history...
Was there something about the Neanderthals’ cognitive capacity that didn’t measure up? By Dr. Anna GoldfieldArchaeologist One...
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual. By Ruth Garde / 04.06.2017 Curator,...
An evolutionary biologist makes the case that there’s no reconciling science and religion. In the search for...
Darwin to understand the convergence of disparate scales of geological and human history. The event now known...
Many machinists even created their own variations of the difference engine after Babbage’s death. Introduction The 2008...
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a growth in the inland exploration of Latin America. Introduction The...
Sir Francis Bacon developed a method for philosophers to use in weighing the truthfulness of knowledge. How...
Emile Herman Grubbe discovered the x-rays could cure, but he was right for the wrong reasons. Radiation...
How a New York farmer’s elaborate hoax “proved” giants roamed the Earth. One Sunday afternoon in October...
Forensic medicine, also called “medical jurisprudence” or “legal medicine,” emerged in the 1600s. The Rise of Forensics...
Aristotle studied developing organisms, among other things, in ancient Greece, and his writings shaped Western philosophy and...
In 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbott published Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever book that...
Chinese alchemists developed methods for manipulating minerals and altering the state of substances. Introduction Most of us...
Exploring the impact of Labillardière’s work following a voyage to Australasia. This article, Jacques Labillardière’s Contribution to...
Some general principles for approaching the topic of knowledge transfer and science transfer. Abstract We are all...
The history of biology, built upon the thoroughness and insight of Aristotle and Galen, passed onto the...
Could seeing things in black-and-white terms influence people’s views on scientific questions? Lightspring/Shutterstock.com Why do some people reject...
The Milky Way / NASA, Public Domain It is instructive to see how quickly nonsense claims evaporate...
Flickr, Creative Commons The recent intrusion of pseudoscience into mainstream scientific literature is a cause for concern....
The spiral of Theodorus up to the triangle with a hypotenuse of √17 / Wikimedia Commons A pseudoscience is...
Franklin advanced a scientific – not supernatural – understanding of astronomical events such as eclipses. His satirical...
Almost 160 years after Charles Darwin publicized his groundbreaking theory on the development of life, Americans are...
Preserving foodstuffs by mechanical refrigeration became an industrial possibility only in the 1870s and 1880s. The refrigerator...