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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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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.WWW

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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!WWW

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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.WWW

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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.WWW

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Penicillin was one of medical sciences biggest breakthroughs.WWW

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Pasteur discovered how to "pasteurize" to keep things germ free.WWW

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Scientists are surprised to learn that the universe is speeding up.WWW

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The site of the Burgess Shale was created by an underwater mudflow entombing organisms for hundreds of millions of yearsWWW

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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.WWW

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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.WWW

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Bernard Brunhes' study of volcanic eruptions lead to the discovery of the earth's magnetic field reversal.WWW

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Early in the eighteenth century scientists first began to classify animals.WWW

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