In the 1920s, hundreds of pamphlets were published whose authors self-confidently claimed to have refuted the theory of relativity. The opposition to relativity was extraordinarily fierce and lasted ...

The 106-foot, three-masted schooner was named Blossom in honor of the voyage's benefactor, Elizabeth Bingham Blossom, wife of businessman Dudley S. Blossom - and the family surname behind the Blossom ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one story that fell ...

Oklahoma has the unfortunate distinction of becoming the capital of human-induced earthquakes in the US. That's a recent development that comes thanks to deep injection wells used to dispose of ...

When in 1900 Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy, working at McGill University in Montreal, figured that thorium was spontaneously turning into argon by radioactive decay, Soddy exclaimed ‘This is ...

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