It is often reported that Robert Millikan’s 1915 photoelectric experiment verified Einstein’s hypothesis about light quanta...

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Benjamin Franklin proposed a number of electrical pranks from drinking glasses designed to give the drinker a sock to a fake...

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Perhaps the earliest thinker to suggest the idea of black holes was an English reverend, John Michell. In 1724 Michell noted...

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It is recorded that both Philo of Byzantium and Hero of Alexandria carried out experiments using thermoscopes, tubes filled...

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The term ‘mass’ is derived from the Latin massa meaning a lump of dough or paste. In many ancient cultures, despite...

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One of Fermi’s assistants disappeared in mysterious circumstances. Bruno Pontecorvo was born in Pisa and went on to work with...

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An important factor in the failure of Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to the South Pole was an error in estimating the energy...

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The eastern and western halves of the Japanese national grid run on different frequencies: 50 Hz and 60 Hz respectively. This...

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A paper by a team of forensic pathologists calculated the energy required to break beer bottles in order to determine whether...

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Red giants may become unstable and exhibit variable luminosity: the red giant Mira (Omicron Ceti) displays a variation in...

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