This gallery contains 3 photos.
Thanks to Dr. Eric Scerri for suggesting this interesting post: In his report on The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements, in 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev had implicitly predicted the existence of a heavier analog of titanium and zirconium. At the time of his formulation in … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
In radiometric dating, closure temperature or blocking temperature refers to the temperature of a system, such as a mineral, at the time given by its radiometric date. In physical terms, the closure temperature at which a system has cooled so … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan CBE (10 June 1911 – 30 November 1977) was one of England’s most popular 20th-century dramatists. His plays are generally set in an upper-middle-class background. He is known for such works as The Winslow Boy (1946), … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Austrian Empire’s Augustinian friar and scientist, who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics for his study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants. Mendel showed that the inheritance of these traits follows particular laws, which were … Continue reading
This gallery contains 2 photos.
In the Western classical tradition Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epicpoet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature. Herodotus estimates that Homer lived … Continue reading
This gallery contains 3 photos.
Casuarina equisetifolia is a she-oak species of the genus Casuarina. The native range extends from Burma and Vietnam throughout Malesia east to French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu, and south to Australia (north of Northern Territory, north and east Queensland, … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Do you want your share of scientific immortality? You can devote your life to mastering your field, examining the mysteries of the universe, and then finally arriving at one great discovery…but according to Stigler’s Law, you won’t get the credit. … Continue reading
This gallery contains 3 photos.
Peter Howson OBE (born 1958) is a Scottish painter. He was an official war artist in the 1993 Bosnian Civil War. Peter Howson was born in London and moved with his family to Prestwick, Ayrshire, when Howson was aged four. … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall in the United Kingdom, including the world’s largest greenhouse. Inside the artificial biomes are plants that are collected from all around the world. The project is located in a reclaimed Kaolinite pit, located 2 km from the town of St Blazey and 5 km … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
A craton (Greek: κράτος kratos ”strength”) is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere. Having often survived cycles of merging and rifting of continents, cratons are generally found in the interiors of tectonic plates. They are characteristically composed of ancient crystalline basement rock, which may be … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (October 24, 1632 – August 26, 1723) was a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands. He is commonly known as “the Father of Microbiology”, and considered to be the first microbiologist. He is best known for his work on the improvement of the microscope and … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Born in Fife, Scotland in 1951, Jack Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer. For his twenty-first birthday, a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and, from then on, he spent much of his spare … Continue reading
This gallery contains 5 photos.
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. In early work he discovered the concept … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, FRS ( 15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987) was a French physicist and a Nobel laureate. He was the sixteenth member elected to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française in 1944, and served as Perpetual Secretary of the Académie des sciences, France. - He … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Insulin is the principal hormone that regulates uptake of glucose from the blood into most cells (primarily muscle and fat cells, but not central nervous system cells). Therefore deficiency of insulin or the insensitivity of its receptors plays a central … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique. She was the second woman to be awarded … Continue reading
Anyons are hypothetical particles that have been postulated to represent a third class of fundamental particles alongside the known bosons and fermions. Physicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich have now proposed a novel experimental design that should make it possible to … Continue reading
More than 2,000 years after Archimedes found a way to determine the density of a king’s crown by measuring its mass in fluids, MIT scientists have used a similar principle to solve an equally vexing puzzle — how to measure … Continue reading
For migratory birds and sea turtles, the ability to sense Earth’s magnetic field is crucial to navigating the long-distance voyages these animals undertake during migration. Humans, however, are widely assumed not to have an innate magnetic sense. Research published in … Continue reading
An important milestone in the direct measurement of the magnetic moment of the proton and its anti-particle has been achieved. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM), together with their colleagues from the Max … Continue reading
