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Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in Physics, and with her later win, in Chemistry, she became the first person to claim Nobel honors twice.

While the sound energy produced by human voices and jack-hammers aren't that useful, their vibrations could hold the key to a new source of power.

Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing (MTO) was a randomized social experiment sponsored by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the 1990s among 6969 low-income families with children living in high-poverty public housing…

A 176-year-old tortoise believed to be one of the world’s oldest living creatures has died in an Australian zoo. "Harriet" was long reputed to have been one of three tortoises taken from the Galapagos Islands by Charles Darwin on his historic 1835 voyage…

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At least two million people died as the Marxist regime tried to turn back the clock in Cambodia.

Recto: notes on the valves of the heart and the flow of blood within it, with illustrative drawings; a drawing of a mould for the making of a glass model of the pulmonary or aortic valves.Leonardo’s analysis of the heart was the most brilliant of his many…

We talk to Robin Mathews, a first-time Oscar nominee for her work on an amazingly low budget on *Dallas Buyers Club*.

The Saur Revolution (/sɔːr/; Persian: إنقلاب ثور‎ or ۷ ثور (literally 7th Saur); Pashto: د ثور انقلاب‎), also called the April Revolution or April Coup, was a coup d'état (or self-proclaimed revolution) led by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan…

If you ever find yourself working in an infectious disease laboratory, whether it’s of the diagnostic or research variety, the overarching goal is not to put any microbes in your eye, an open wound or your mouth. Easy enough, right? Wear gloves, maybe goggles…

It took a troop of apes, and a psychiatrist, and a little Paxil.

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The Beat-Alls were a team of supervillains comprised of Mojo Jojo, HIM, Fuzzy Lumpkins and Princess Morbucks. As the name implies, they are a parody of the 1960's group, The Beatles. When the...

In fact, about 70 percent of people who win a lottery or get a big windfall actually end up broke within three to four years, according to the National Endowment for Financial Education.

Willem Arondeus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to…

The high price of commonly used medications for conditions like asthma contributes heavily to health care costs and certainly causes more widespread anguish.

For twenty years, Namco Bandai has held patent US 5718632 A, which has given them ownership of the idea of a loading screen minigame. On November 27 (this Friday), that patent expires.

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The director of a Norwegian museum has claimed to have discovered cartoons drawn by Adolf Hitler during the Second World War.