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7 things most unbelievable in medicine
Eating pheasants causes drowsiness; nails continue to grow after people die; need to drink 8 glasses of water a day for good health. That's 3 of the 7 things that US res…
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Franklin's special ideas
Benjamin Franklin for many has been associated with the image of a kite, a key and a lightning bolt. We honor him for achievements in science and for the fact that he si…
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How did I become a creator of toys?
I am a professional toy inventor, I always like to experiment and disassemble things. From a young age, whenever my house bought a new item like a TV or a lawn mower, my…
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Inventor '2 in 1'
No medical major, no college degree, cancer patient, but John Kanzius is known to the US medical community for inventing radio-wave cancer therapy machines, promising to…
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The creator of artificial life
In October 2007, American Professor John Craig Venter - once famous for his work on deciphering the human genome - caused a stir in the world of science when he proclaim…
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Satellite builders
At the Institute of Space Technology (VN Institute of Science and Technology), there are very young people who are struggling to wrestle with diagrams, modules to do a v…
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Ancient mechanics and things still know
The boating slaves knew that the positions in the middle of the boat were the best although they could not explain why. Scholars had to find the answer to that.
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Grade 7 student counted for NASA about apocalypse April 13, 2036
By his calculations, a 13-year-old student living in Potsdam City - Germany has forced the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) to acknowledge a risk of earth destruction on Sunda…
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From natural nuclear furnace to parallel universe!
In 1974, a strange phenomenon was discovered: The U235 isotope composition in natural Uranium at Oklo mine, Gabon is much smaller than normal. Can explain this strange p…
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People do revolution in physics
Max Planck's life is the life of a human being with conscience, morality, social responsibility, country and scientific development. The glory is not lacking for him. Bu…
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Genius is like us
Everyone has heard about a crazy professor or a ignorant scientist. But looking deeply into the normal and abnormal defects of some great minds, see that
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Specialists 'sniffing' mines
After a decade of developing 'sniffing' technology to help clear up landmines, American Professor Timothy Swager, 45, head of the Institute of Public Health chemistry
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The predictions of the genius of Leonardo da Vinci
In the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci foretold the existence of means that only came out 400-500 years later, such as telephones and television. And many new devices ap…
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China: Marshal in particle physics
Continuously since 1989, in a building that occupies the entire city block of Beijing City, Chinese physicists have quietly experimented with firing electrons and positr…
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Letters reveal Darwin's youth
Before stomach pain forced Charler Darwin to drop out of medical school, before boarding the Beagle around the world and before penning for masterpieces.