history of science
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Without this brilliant German chemist, your Christmas tree wouldn’t have been the same
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The science of resurrecting the ‘dead’ has a creepy history
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How flaming red sunsets led an amateur scientist in Hawaii to discover jet streams
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Doctors started measuring body temperature of patients quite recently
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350 years after its discovery, the vital element phosphorus is running out
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Why Thomas Edison’s legacy is being questioned – and why that’s a lesson for America
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A tale of ‘trons’: The suffix that tells the story of modern science
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How Marie Curie helped save lives during World War I with her mobile X-ray machines
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Why India’s theoretical physicists owe a lot to Alladi Ramakrishnan’s drawing room in Madras
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Video: How a total solar eclipse over India in 1868 led to the discovery of Helium
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How a Madras scientist won the global race in the ’50s to crack the structure of collagen
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Watch: The humble rubber band has a very curious history (and that's not stretching things too far)
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Opposition to Galileo was not just religious – it was scientific
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Copernicus' revolution and Galileo’s vision: Our changing view of the universe in pictures
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Records of a lunar eclipse from more than 3,000 years ago
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The astronomer and the witch – how Kepler saved his mother from the stake