Sir Winston Churchill said Alan Turing鈥檚 breaking of German codes for secret messages shortened the Second World War by two years. Computer scientists credit Turing with formulating the...
Rarely does a single event alter the course of medicine, but that is exactly what happened at Boston鈥檚 Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846 in the surgical theatre that would...
Quick now, name some famous scientists. Einstein surely comes to mind, then maybe Newton, Marie Curie, Galileo, Stephen Hawking. Not much of a problem. Next, name some famous composers. I suspect...
After the 86-year-old hockey legend suffered disabling strokes last fall, his family took him to a clinic in Mexico where he underwent experimental stem cell treatment. The procedure involved...
Everyone has skeletons in their closet. There鈥檚 at least one in mine. A couple of years ago while on a cruise I pinched a spoon from the dining room. It wasn鈥檛 because of any lack of spoons at home...
Jay McLean walked into Dr. William Howell鈥檚 laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and placed a beaker of cat blood on his desk. 鈥淐an you please tell me when the blood clots鈥� he asked? It never did...
Glass is made by mixing and heating silica (sand), sodium carbonate (soda) and limestone (calcium carbonate).听 But, as we know, glass breaks quite easily, especially when subjected to sudden...
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