More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

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Amelia Frank published a handful of scholarly papers which are well-cited for the time. Yet histories of physics mostly ...

The text is now best known for introducing “Pascal’s Law” or “Principle,” that any change of pressure in an enclosed incompressible fluid (like water) is transmitted equally to all points within the ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

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In Part 2 of his story, Benita Albert tells of astronomer Bob Benjamin's career, including teaching and now being a NASA consultant.

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With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...