Physicist Francis Perrin sat at a nuclearfuel-processing plant down in the south of France, thinking to himself: “This cannot be possible.” It was 1972.

Nobel laureate in Chemistry & American solid-state physicist and professor

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A pair of brothers were surprised when the fictitious name they made up for a free yearly ice cream list received a Selective Service registration notice.

"I was still in my car and I could feel water rising over my knees," Angela Hernandez wrote of her first memory after driving over a cliff.

Ian McAulay is awarded the sum despite Southern Water's £90m fine for deliberate sewage spills.

The less empathetic someone is, the less likely they are to yawn back.

German victim of a miscarriage of justice

Cocaine is also used in medical care, especially in sinus surgery.

"You're Beautiful" is a song by English singer-songwriter James Blunt. It was written by Blunt, Sacha Skarbek and Amanda Ghost for Blunt's debut album, Back to Bedlam (2004). It was released as the second single from the album in 2005.

Multiple Oscars records were broken at the 2021 ceremony, including the first Asian woman to win best director and a new oldest winner in an acting category.

place in the municipality of Pomarance, Italy

Pakistani nuclear scientist (1936-2021)

The military origins of wearable tech, a century before the Apple Watch. On July 9, 1916, The New York…

In terms of size, this is a very important factor when it comes to cows, especially regarding the meat and milk production they offer. At...

MLB still leans on its longtime mud suppliers who harvest the secret sauce needed on every baseball.

“So lovely to see. With so much anxiety around we need more of these videos,” comments a Facebook user about the video.

Back in the thirteenth century, the king of Sicily, Frederick II, conducted a diabolical experiment intended to discover what language children would naturally grow up to speak if never spoken to. He thought it would be either Hebrew, Greek, Latin or Arabic.…

It was almost midnight in the Peruvian Amazon, when scientists from the University of Michigan heard a scratching noise in the leaves and saw a dinner-plate-sized tarantula dragging a mouse opossum along the forest floor.

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