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The doctor who created the 'industry' of grave theft in the UK
An obsessive fascination with the body of a great doctor led directly to the development of grave theft into a popular 'industry' in England in the 1700s.
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Nikola Tesla and obsession 3, 6, 9
The numbers 3, 6, 9 are associated with the life of genius Nikola Tesla because he thinks they are the key to decipher the secret of the universe.
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The story behind this black and white photo of SpaceX's spacecraft
SpaceX's next Starship prototype gets a black-and-white treatment in a stunning new photo shared by the company's billionaire founder Elon Musk.
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'Incubator Doctor' - Benefactor of premature babies
Known as the 'Incubator Doctor', Martin Couney was a controversial figure in the early 20th century.
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Portrait of the female scientist behind the success of the Astrazeneca vaccine against Covid-19
Overcoming difficulties and challenges on the way of scientific research, Sarah Gilbert and her colleagues successfully invented the Oxford/Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccine.
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The death of the world's leading zoologist and the story of 'birth and death'
Steve Irwin has wrestled with crocodiles, faced hundreds of wild animals. But in the end, his life ended because of an unexpected animal.
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How did Galileo and his telescope change the idea of the universe?
The path of genius is not always easy for those who walk it.
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Handheld computer pioneer dies
After more than a decade of fighting cancer, famous inventor Clive Sinclair took his last breath on September 16 at the age of 81.
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James Maxwell - The Forgotten Great Physicist
The physicist with a rather strange name actually contributed only a small part as explaining the principle of radio waves, magnets and battery charging. But why is he s…
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The first woman to circumnavigate the world by sea
Jeanne Baret, the botanist, was born in an era when all scientific discovery was almost exclusively male.
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The story of the most perfect but useless bridge in the world
That is the Puente Sol Naciente (Bridge of the Rising Sun), in Choluteca, Honduras. It has no way to, nor way to go, it is located next to the river that we need to cros…
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Herbert Nitsh - The world's deepest dive without an oxygen tank
Dubbed the 'world's deepest dive without oxygen', Herbert Nitsch, an Austrian citizen, plunged to a depth of 253.2m in the Spetses Sea, Greece in June 2007.
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Komsomolet submarine: From Soviet pride to radioactive leak tragedy
The Komsomolets submarine carried Soviet expectations to break all records, but it was this that pushed it over the limit, and then tragedy struck.
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The dark, little-known life of Mona Lisa in real life
The Mona Lisa with a mysterious smile in Leonardo da Vinci's painting has a life that is said to be not very happy.
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China operates a huge hydroelectric dam, higher than the Three Gorges Dam
The O Dong Duc hydroelectric dam project has started to test electricity, with a dam height of 270m compared to the height of 181m of the Tam Hiep Dam.