1800s
How Louis Pasteur created the first rabies vaccine (1885)
Through observation, experimentation and genius, scientist Louis Pasteur was able to create the first rabies vaccine – even though he didn’t exactly know what caused the disease.
Through observation, experimentation and genius, scientist Louis Pasteur was able to create the first rabies vaccine – even though he didn’t exactly know what caused the disease.
How did America get its name? The man from whom the continents got their names was an especially fascinating character of the late 15th century.
The way life is carried on now seems near discovery By Watson Davis, Director, Science Service Washington — One of the fundamental problems of living
In a bit of common soil taken from a Venezuelan field, Yale scientists have found a new and spectacularly successful weapon for the battle of man vs. microbes: Chloromycetin.
hen the last upheaval came, the whole bottom of the ocean was lifted skyward, and naturally the remains of all kinds of fish, etc., were taken along and left miles and miles inland from the water.
Photographic proof of the cancer germ Dr Gaston Odin, of Paris, tells how he found in the blood of cancerous persons a concealed germ that,
Because of the discovery made by this young farmer of Kansas, every dictionary in the world will have to be revised. For all time to come, students of astronomy will read that the ninth planet, Pluto, was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.
Kansas farm boy spots new planet Clyde Tombaugh of Burdett First to Detect “Blotch of Light” Flagstaff, Arizona — Discovery of a new world, probably
NOAA announced it has found the underwater wreck of the passenger steamer City of Chester, which sank in 1888 in a collision in dense fog near where the Golden Gate Bridge stands today.
A scientist announced Saturday that he had positively identified the chemical makeup of genes, the tiny cells that govern heredity, despite Russian claims that the gene is a “figment of the imagination.”
Cemetery gives clue to ancient ailment by Walter C Alvarez, MD Recently, a remarkable cemetery was discovered near York, in northern England. It dates back
Tubal cains of the Andes hit the bronze secret by Garrett P Serviss In the succession of prehistoric and primitive times the “bronze age” precedes
36 feet of neck on shoulders 20 feet high! That’s what newly-found Gigantosaurus has, and now the scientists are going to search for a live
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