Sir James Chadwick, CH, FRS (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was a British physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government…

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British aircraft incident involving rapid decompression due to window seperation

Two former students at a Massachusetts school for the mentally retarded told federal lawmakers Thursday that their excitement over taking part in a 1950s school Science Club had turned to fear since they learned that club members were fed cereal laced with…

How Quint's famous speech from JAWS almost became the series' first sequel.

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern…

Thirty years ago, something happened that helped change the public's view of the gorilla - an event that also proved heartfelt.

Life in the Roman Empire wasn't all banquets and festivals as, for the men at least, there were long periods of military conscription.

A surprising drug has brought a kind of consciousness to patients once considered vegetative — and changed the debate over pulling the plug.

Martha Lillard spends half of every day with her body encapsulated in a half-century old machine that forces her to breathe. Only her head sticks out of the end of the antique iron lung. On the other side, a motorized lever pulls the leather bellows, creating…

A sperm’s journey from vagina to egg is only 15 centimeters long, but it’s a race with attrition.

Kim Goldman wrote to O.J.

Walking through the city streets you hear them. The crunching rumble, the whoosh of air and debris rushing out of the way, the screech of metal and steam. The subway system of New York City is...

incident that occurred on September 2, 1885 in Rock Springs

American priest

With the help of his friend Mark Twain, Grant finished his memoirs—and saved his wife from an impoverished widowhood—just days before he died

Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant in Pittsburgh that serves only ethnic foods from countries with which the United States is in conflict. The menu focuses on one nation at a time, rotating every three to five months, and features related educational…

The estate's archivist has discovered enough unreleased music to release a new album every year for the next century.