Quarks to Quasars

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital.

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The largest recorded tsunami was a wave 1,720 feet tall – over a quarter mile high. It struck Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958.

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HUMAN BODY PART THAT STUMPED LEONARDO DA VINCI REVEALED

Leonardo da Vinci’s 500-year-old illustrations of human anatomy are uncannily accurate with just one major exception: the female reproductive system. Read More

Comet

Comet Hale–Bopp, as seen on 29 March 1997 in PazinCroatia

Astronaut Edward White floats in zero gravity of space northeast of Hawaii, during the first-ever spacewalk for an American, on June 3, 1965, during the flight of Gemini IV. (NASA/JSC/ASU) #

Galileo moon phases

Galileo’s sketches and observations of the Moon revealed that the surface was mountainous.

Home Sweet Home

Einstein at his home in Princeton, New Jersey.

Space shuttle Discovery is lugged out to launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on January 17, 1997. (NASA)

Astronauts Drive on the Moon

1971: Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drive the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the surface of the moon. It’s the first off-planet automobile ride.

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday (1791–1867) delivering the 1856 Christmas Lecture at the Royal Institution

Lunar scientists shed light on Moon’s impact history

Analysis shows that craters formed near the Nectaris impact basin were created by projectiles hitting twice as fast as those found on more ancient terrains.

By NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California

Published: February 28, 2012

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Albert Einstein

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The Titanic, 100 Years Later

Walden Media

The April 2012 issue of National Geographic has a cover story with incredible photos of the sunken Titanic, a hundred years after the wreck. Only the newest imaging technology has made these pictures possible. See them over at Nat Geo.

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