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'Unveiling' the painful truth behind the experiment that created the world's first X-rays
X-rays have helped modern medicine a lot, but the early experiments to discover them cost human lives.
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The first X-ray image made his wife invent it to be startled
In the second half of 1895, when Anna Bertha Roentgen's husband spent several weeks studying in his lab, she devoted herself to serving her husband.
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Add 3 new elements in the periodic table
During the recent meeting at the Institute of Physics (London), the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) adopted three new elements to complement the…
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Famous Snake scientists
Luigi Galvani is one of many world-famous snake scientists with important contributions to human history.