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In 1971, during the Apollo 15 mission, NASA astronaut David Scott carried out one of the most elegant scientific ...

International research team from Germany, the UK and Greece finds evidence of wooden tool use in Greece 430,000 years ago ...

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Three researchers from the Faculty of Humanities, Communication and Documentation at the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M), Jesús Bermejo, ...

On Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei turned his self-built telescope, which he had recently made improvements to, towards Jupiter. There he noticed three spots of light. Though he first concluded they ...

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IN looking through the “Dialoghi delle Nuove Scienze” of Galileo, I came unexpectedly on a passage * containing two remarkable discoveries in acoustics, which I should have confidently referrred to a ...