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Chemistry Ph.D. Student Turned Her Thesis Into a Comic Book

(via mental_floss) Mention the word “quasicrystals” and everyone will immediately know what you’re talking about, right? Probably not. University of

(via Mental Floss) On July 17, 1902, Willis Haviland Carrier finished drawing up plans for what is today considered the

(via Smithsonian) The computer code that sent Apollo 11 to the moon just resurfaced online and is chock-full of jokes.

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(via The Week) Come 2021, if all goes as planned, Los Angeles will have the biggest battery in the world.

(via Atlas Obscura) As one of the earliest, practical uses of electric light, arc lamps were garishly bright. Setting aside

(via The Atlantic) According to statistics from the USDA, nearly 900 million gallons of ice cream is produced in the

(via BBC) In response to the new, devastating weapons of industrialized warfare of World War I came equally advanced medical

(via Popular Mechanics) When a fresh crew blasts off toward the International Space Station this week, their first task will

(via Tech Insider) A common misconception about space is that objects are free from the shackles of gravity. The truth

Last Space Shuttle launch – Atlantis – STS-135 July 21, 2011. A pilot in the area was able to shoot

(via Great Big Story) If you logged onto the internet circa 1997, chances are you heard this guy, Elwood Edwards,

(via Popular Mechanics) The people tasked with protecting objects that make up the backbone of our culture use a lot