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 ... Read more...
Safe, efficient & potent polio vaccine a great medical advance (1955)
Polio vaccine is a great medical advance
Reports from the leaders in the polio vaccine field that the treatment is safe, efficient and potent marks... Read more...
New drug found in common soil (1948)
New drug found in common soil
It is the first quick cure for typhus: Chloromycetin
In a bit of common soil taken from a Venezuelan field, Yale sci... Read more...
Television unveiled: TV finally a reality (1930)
Television unveiled
by Robert Joyce Tasker
Imagine a fire... hot, blistering, roaring and raging through a tenement district, impelled on a hurr... Read more...
Male ‘Pill’ shows promise (1976)
It's interesting that, 40 years later, we're still seeing the same kinds of news stories about the potential of male contraceptives. For example, 2011... Read more...
World’s biggest bomber: The new B-36 (1946)
It's the world's biggest bomber!
The new B-36: Photographed during its third test flight out of Fort Worth, Texas
You're looking at the giga... Read more...
Why the man-eating sharks off Jersey coast? (1916)
Shore men try to explain presence of big man-eaters
What has attracted the man-eating shark to the North Atlantic bathing grounds? This has been a ... Read more...
Artificial daylight made by Tesla (1899)
The promise made by Nikola Tesla to the world some two years ago that he would soon give it a means of lighting its homes, its offices and its streets at night time by “artificial daylight” has been fulfilled.
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.
Scientists agree: Martians are a super-race (1920)
Though it reads like science fiction or an April Fool's prank, this story was presented as news -- and published on the front page of the Sunday New Y... Read more...
All aboard for the moon! (1908)
All aboard for the moon!
The conquest of the air is assured now for interplanetary space
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In a recent number of... Read more...
Was Albert Einstein a space alien? (2005)
Was Einstein a space alien?
From NASA
One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein revolutionized physics.
Albert Einstein was exhausted. For the t... Read more...
What kinds of vegetables grow on the moon? (1922)
What kinds of vegetables grow on the moon?
Recent observations through the new big telescopes upset scientists' old belief that the moon is dead an... Read more...
The Shrinkage of the Planet, by Jack London (1900)
The Shrinkage of the Planet
An essay by Jack London
What a tremendous affair it was, the world of Homer, with its indeterminate boundaries, vast... Read more...
Tesla: Science will win the next war (1916)
Nikola Tesla, electrical scientist, says not armies alone, but whole populations will be destroyed by use of wireless currents — his own air torpedo deadly.
“Flying saucer” Roswell disc mystery is solved (1947)
Disc mystery is 'solved' for three hours until Roswell find collapses
A rancher's discovery of a strange object at first identified by an Army public... Read more...
Weird doings at the Tesla plant (1903)
Weird doings at the Tesla plant
Natives around Wardenclyffe, Long Island, having the time of their lives guessing what the electrician is trying to... Read more...
Albert Einstein dies (1955)
Einstein dies
Dr Albert Einstein, whose thinking changed the history of man, died today at Princeton, NJ.
The white-haired, world famous physici... Read more...
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, p... Read more...
Swigert is ‘swinger’ on Apollo 13 crew (1970)
Swigert is 'swinger' on Apollo 13 crew (1970)
By Darrell Mack, Space Center, Houston
John Leonard Swigert, Jr., the emergency substitute member ... Read more...
Science fiction television: The future is now (1993)
Science fiction television: The future is now
Let's get something politically correct here: real aficionados abbreviate science fiction as "SF," no... Read more...
The giant Brontosaurus in Central Park (1905)
The giant Brontosaurus in Central Park
A mammoth native of Wyoming of some odd million years ago, 67 feet long with a stomach cavity as big as the ki... Read more...
Darwin on the fossil record & the Cambrian period (1859)
In his book, "On the Origin of Species," Charles Darwin considered the sudden appearance of a solitary group of trilobites (extinct marine arthropods)... Read more...
Life growing harder for the people on Mars (1922)
This story was published in The Washington Times in 1922: Martians must soon find means to move to some better world, or be wiped out of existence.
Sharks ravages on Jersey coast puzzle scientists (1916)
Scientists are without sufficient information to explain the appearance of the sea monsters so far inland and northward at a point remote from their usual habitat.
Moon landing video & transcript (1969)
With more than half a billion people watching on television, Neil Armstrong climbs down the ladder and proclaims, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
