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Reanimated Rodents and The Meaning of Life

One afternoon in the early 1950s, a young biochemist left his suburban lab bench at Britain’s Mill Hill National Inst...

Written by Matt Castle • 22 Jun 2007 • Read →

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Living in the Moment

"I don't remember things," Henry explained to the unfamiliar female interviewer. She seemed very curious about how h...

Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Jun 2007 • Read →

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Half Science and Hafnium Bombs

In the latter half of 1998, a small clutch of researchers and students at the University of Texas embarked upon a gro...

Written by Alan Bellows • 31 May 2007 • Read →

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The Windscale Disaster

In the wake of World War 2 the United States government enacted legislation which prohibited any other nations from r...

Written by Gerry Matlack • 07 May 2007 • Read →

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The Fall of the Eastland

At a pier on the Chicago River on 24 July 1915, as the passenger steamer SS Eastland prepared to embark across lake M...

Written by Alan Bellows • 29 Mar 2007 • Read →

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The Other Mystery of Easter Island

Easter Island is branded into popular consciousness as the home of the mysterious and towering moai statues, but thes...

Written by Stephanie Benson • 26 Dec 2006 • Read →

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Incident on Niihau Island

When the Empire of Nippon launched its massive attack on Pearl Harbor on the morning of 7 December 1941, Airman 1st C...

Written by Jason Bellows • 01 Dec 2006 • Read →

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King Arthur’s Grave

The legend of King Arthur is an enduring one, so popular that it has been shared for centuries. The earliest accounts...

Written by Stephanie Benson • 23 Oct 2006 • Read →

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An Island Is Born

Off the coast of Iceland on the morning of 14 November 1963, the crew of a lone fishing trawler spotted an alarming s...

Written by Marisa Brook • 02 Sep 2006 • Read →

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The Lost Bomber

In the middle of the afternoon on January 31, 1956 a B-25 bomber crash-landed into the Monongahela river near Homeste...

Written by Daniel Lew • 03 Jul 2006 • Read →

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