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Chernobyl

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Chernobyl

Where Is Chernobyl? Chernobyl is located in northern Ukraine, about 80 miles north of Kiev. A small town, Pripyat, was constructed a few miles from the site of the nuclear plant to accommodate workers and their families. Construction of the Chernobyl power plant began in 1977, when the country was still part of the Soviet […]

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Reconstruction of settlement of late Jomon period, Japan, illustrationUNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1900: Prehistory, Neolithic, Japan. Reconstructed late Jomon period settlement. Drawing. (Photo By DEA PICTURE LIBRARY/De Agostini via Getty Images)

Neolithic Revolution

Neolithic Age The Neolithic Age is sometimes called the New Stone Age. Neolithic humans used stone tools like their earlier Stone Age ancestors, who eked out a marginal existence in small bands of hunter-gatherers during the last Ice Age. Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe coined the term “Neolithic Revolution” in 1935 to describe the radical […]

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Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), English scientist who studied heredity, founder of science of eugenics.

Eugenics

Francis Galton Eugenics literally means “good creation.” The ancient Greek philosopher Plato may have been the first person to promote the idea, although the term “eugenics” didn’t come on the scene until British scholar Sir Francis Galton coined it in 1883 in his book, Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development. In one of Plato’s […]

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Local youths and volunteers gather in an open field and wait to support firefighters during a wildfire next in the Greek village of Kamatriades.

Climate Change History

Early Inklings That Humans Can Alter Global Climate Dating back to the ancient Greeks, many people had proposed that humans could change temperatures and influence rainfall by chopping down trees, plowing fields or irrigating a desert. One theory of climate effects, widely believed until the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, held that “rain follows the […]

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Thomas Midgley, Jr.

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This 1920s Inventor Sped Up Climate Change With His Chemical Creations

Thomas J. Midgley is now considered one of history’s most dangerous inventors.

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Are Scientists on the Verge of Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth?

The prehistoric beasts roamed the earth 10,000 years ago—and scientists are obsessed with bringing them back.

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An Entire Layer of Earth’s History Could Have Been Ripped Away by Ice

Blame it on “Snowball Earth.”

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Why Did the Clovis People Mysteriously Vanish?

Scientists have discovered new evidence of the ancient culture in South America.

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2011

Man who served 25 years for murder exonerated by DNA

Crime
1967

First human heart transplant

Inventions & Science
1900

The birth of quantum theory

Inventions & Science
1978

World’s first “test tube” baby born

Inventions & Science
1984

Baby Fae, infant who received baboon heart transplant, dies

Inventions & Science
1921

Scientists successfully isolate insulin

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