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James Cook: Voyages That Changed the Map of the World

Cover image: Le Petit Atlas Maritime, 1764, by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin., public domain A Restless Boy from YorkshireSelf-Education and the Making of a NavigatorFrom War Hero...
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Marie Curie: Science, Sacrifice, and the Cost of Discovery

Marie Curie: Early Life in Russian-Occupied PolandEducation and the Dream of ScienceThe Secret University and Political ActivismMarie Curie at the SorbonneMarie Curie marriage with...
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From Planets to Black Holes

A journey through the most fascinating corners of space
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Curiosity

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History

The Wright Brothers: The Story Behind the First Powered Flight

Cover image: John T. Daniels, public domain Otto Lilienthal and the Dream of Human FlightWho Were the Wright Brothers?Early Life and Entrepreneurial SpiritThe Bicycle Shop...
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Physics

Discovery of the neutron: How did James Chadwick prove his theory?

Cover image: Inductiveload, public domain The State of Atomic Physics Before the NeutronDiscovery of radioactivityThe gold foil experiment and the discovery of the atomic nucleusDiscovery...
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Physics

The Stern-Gerlach Experiment: How a Simple Test Revealed the Electron Spin

Cover image: Marcin Białek, licensed under CC BY 3.0. The Stern-Gerlach Experiment: Setup and PredictionsExperimental Results: Two Beams Instead of ThreeUhlenbeck and Goudsmit: The Path to...
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Chemistry

Mendeleev and Gallium: How Theory Predicted the Unknown

Cover image: Foobar, licensed under CC BY 3.0. The Discovery of Gallium by Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran The chemical element with atomic number 31 was officially...
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History

Henry Ford: The first moving assembly line

Cover image: SnapMeUp, licensed under CC BY 4.0. One warm rainy night in June, in the year 1896, Clara Ford heard a terrible hammering noise from...
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Marie Curie: Science, Sacrifice, and the Cost of Discovery

Marie Curie: Early Life in Russian-Occupied PolandEducation and the Dream of ScienceThe Secret University and Political ActivismMarie Curie at the SorbonneMarie Curie marriage with...
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Explorations

Geography

Vasco da Gama: The First Sea Route to India

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Cover image: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, public domain Vasco da Gama Early Life and EducationThe First Voyage to India (1497–1499)Preparation and Departure from LisbonCrossing the Atlantic...
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James Cook: Voyages That Changed the Map of the World

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Cover image: Le Petit Atlas Maritime, 1764, by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin., public domain A Restless Boy from YorkshireSelf-Education and the Making of a NavigatorFrom War Hero...

Roald Amundsen: South Pole Expedition

Marco Polo’s Epic Journey on the Silk Road

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