Greatest Discoveries
Greatest Discoveries
Greatest Discoveries
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The universe is not perfect, it is full of elliptical orbits. I bet that something you didn't know. Find out how this knowledge came to be fact.
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Elliptical Orbits
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William Herschel was a classical trained musician who changed to astronomy to study the stars. He became the greatest telescope maker of his time and discovered that the Milky Way is full of stars.
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Disk of Stars
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Scientist are smart but did you know that they used radio waves to find a black whole four times bigger than the sun on the other side of the Milky Way. Cool!
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Milky Way Radio Waves
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A great discovery at the time, the earth is not the center of the universe but the sun is. Find out how this discovery came to be.
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Earth Moves
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Gamma Bursts are very big explosions, devastating, and they happen in space all the time. Some are so big we can see them light years a way.
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Gamma Bursts
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Penicillin was one of medical sciences biggest breakthroughs.
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The Discovery of Penicillin
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Pasteur discovered how to "pasteurize" to keep things germ free.
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Germ Theory Origins
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The site of the Burgess Shale was created by an underwater mudflow entombing organisms for hundreds of millions of years
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Burgess Shale Creation
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The discovery that a healthy diet with the necessary vitamins prevented many diseases without really that much effort.
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The Discovery of Vitamins
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Cancer cells may already be inside us on the cellular level, just waiting to be activated.
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Cancer Theories and Discoveries
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Bernard Brunhes' study of volcanic eruptions lead to the discovery of the earth's magnetic field reversal.
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Magnetic Field Reversal
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Early in the eighteenth century scientists first began to classify animals.
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Classification of Species
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Diabetes would still take countless lives if it weren't for this unique drug.
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The Invention of Insulin
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The underground intense heat that powers old faithful, is akin to the type of conditions that according to scientists may have began life
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Yellowstone's underground Volcano
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Located at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, this immense hole is what is thought to cause the KT Boundary
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Chicxulub Crater
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HIV, the retrovirus that causes AIDS, continues to puzzle scientists even today, decades after their discovery.
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HIV Research and Discoveries
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Greatest Discoveries
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Diabetes would still take countless lives if it weren't for this unique drug.
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The Invention of Insulin
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Opabinia, one of the underwater creatures discovered in the Burgess Shale, having five eyes and a trunk like appendage was unlike any animal today
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Opabinia
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Greatest Discoveries
Yellowstone's underground Volcano
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Early in the eighteenth century scientists first began to classify animals.
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Greatest Discoveries
Classification of Species
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Vaccinations were the first practice in medical history that humans had personally intervened with in the disease process.
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The Beginning of Vaccination
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Penicillin was one of medical sciences biggest breakthroughs.
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Greatest Discoveries
The Discovery of Penicillin
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Charles Walcott accidentally stumbled across this historical find that after fully executed contained over 65,000 specimens
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Burgess Shale Discovery
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Cancer cells may already be inside us on the cellular level, just waiting to be activated.
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Greatest Discoveries
Cancer Theories and Discoveries
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Created by a miles long Meteor, the KT Boundary marks the end of the Dinosaurs
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KT Boundary Discovery
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The site of the Burgess Shale was created by an underwater mudflow entombing organisms for hundreds of millions of years
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Burgess Shale Creation
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The discovery of these extinct giants have changed science forever
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Extinction of the Dinosaurs
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In 1974 Paleontologists discovered the most fully intact hominid to date, and they named her Lucy
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Lucy
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While aboard the HMS Beagle Charles Darwin would begin to fully realize his theories
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Darwin's Story
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When Researchers discovered these underwater marvels they were even more astonished to find life living among the 700 degree temperatures
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Hydrothermal Vents
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Stanley Miller, conducted experiments in his lab to try to create the conditions that may have started life on earth
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Origin of Life
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