1700s
How did America get its name? Find out, plus see some of the oldest maps of the United States
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.
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1950s
Watson and Crick discover and model the structure of DNA (1953)
The way life is carried on now seems near discovery By Watson Davis, Director, Science Service Washington — One of the fundamental problems of living
1940s
New drug found in common soil (1948)
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.
1800s
Huge fossilized whale found on a California mountaintop (1899)
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.
1910s
Photographic proof of the cancer germ (1912)
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,
1930s
Meet Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto (1930)
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.
1930s
Pluto: Kansas farm boy spots new planet (1930)
Kansas farm boy spots new planet Clyde Tombaugh of Burdett First to Detect “Blotch of Light” Flagstaff, Arizona — Discovery of a new world, probably
1800s
No more rabies (1885)
No more hydrophobia! No more mad dogs! Dr Louis Pasteur’s experiments have resulted in a most brilliant success at perhaps the most important sitting held by the academy of sciences.
1800s
Found: 19th century shipwreck by Golden Gate Bridge (2014)
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.
1940s
DNA: Gene chemical identified – may lead to source of life (1949)
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.”
1960s
Cemetery gives clue to ancient ailment (1962)
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
1910s
Inca discoveries & Machu Picchu (1918)
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
1910s
The newly-discovered Gigantosaurus dinosaur (1914)
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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