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J.J. Thomson announced the discovery of the electron 127 years ago today, revealing the tiny particle that powers everything from smartphones to solar panels. His groundbreaking work at London's Royal Institution transformed our understanding of atoms and launched the age of electronics. #
Two astronomers stood before the Smithsonian in 1920 to argue about the size of our universe. One of them would be proven spectacularly right, changing everything we know about our cosmic home.
A researcher hunting through old books in Florence just discovered Galileo's personal notes scribbled in the margins of a 1,400-year-old astronomy text. The find offers a rare glimpse into how the legendary scientist transformed from student to revolutionary thinker.
A Métis scholar's new podcast is rewriting science history by uncovering two centuries of Indigenous knowledge that shaped Western discoveries. Dr. Darrell Racine's series gives Indigenous youth proof of their ancestors' hidden contributions to the modern world.
Long before Silicon Valley, women wrote the first computer program, invented the compiler, and made GPS accurate. Their innovations shaped how we use technology every day.
A rocket that flew for 2.5 seconds and landed in a cabbage patch changed everything. On March 16, 1926, Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched humanity into the space age.
A college professor's 11-foot invention flew for just three seconds into a cabbage patch on a snowy Massachusetts farm. That brief flight 100 years ago made possible every rocket launch since, including NASA's upcoming return to the Moon.
On this day in 1934, a 32-year-old chemist at DuPont created a revolutionary material that would transform everything from clothing to medicine. Wallace Carothers' invention of nylon marked one of the greatest breakthroughs in synthetic materials.
An archivist just discovered the only known photograph of Richard Carrington, the astronomer who witnessed the most powerful solar storm ever recorded in 1859. After 150 years of searching, the portrait turned up on eBay.
In 1883, a brilliant Mexican astronomer captured photographs of mysterious objects passing between Earth and the sun—hundreds of them. More than a century later, scientists would realize José Árbol y Bonilla may have documented the closest call our planet ever had with a cosmic disaster.