Tag: history of science

New historical research shows Rosalind Franklin deliberately created 'Photo 51' as a planned, high-quality repeat of an earlier image, 'Photo ...

Researchers mined nearly a century of issues from a Spanish regional newspaper to recover 31 aurora reports, creating the first ...

New archival research shows the Veramin meteorite, one of only seven witnessed mesosiderite falls, likely landed near Booghin about 100 ...

A new collection of anecdotes from friends and colleagues portrays Nobel laureate Paul J. Crutzen as a warm, humorous and ...

A new historical review reveals how the ghostly glow of St. Elmo's fire and the point discharge currents behind it ...

Researchers have digitised three 19th-century tide gauge records from Svalbard, revealing an ingenious ice-based gauge design and confirming that Arctic ...

A new study shows a famous 1841 space weather delay of an Exeter train actually occurred in 1848, correcting a ...

A new historical review examines how Smithsonian meteoriticist George Perkins Merrill's early twentieth-century petrographic analyses of chondrules and chondrite metamorphism ...

A new biography marks the 125th birthday of Ukichiro Nakaya, the physicist who made the first artificial snowflake, charted snow ...

A new historical review traces how four independent lines of climate evidence, temperature, sea level, greenhouse gases, and ice, matured ...