Science

Year of Discovery: 1650 What Is It? The volume of a gas is inversely proportional to the force squeezing it. Who Discovered It? Robert Boyle Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? The concept Robert Boyle discovered (now called Boyle’s Law) laid the foundation for all quantitative study and chemical analysis of gasses. It [...]

Year of Discovery: 1628 What Is It? The first complete understanding of how arteries, veins, heart, and lungs function to form a single, complete circulatory system. Who Discovered It? William Harvey Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? The human circulatory system represents the virtual definition of life. No system is more critical to [...]

Year of Discovery: 1610 What Is It? Other planets (be sides Earth) have moons. Who Discovered It? Galileo Galilei Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? Galileo discovered that other planets have moons and thus extended human understanding beyond our own planet. His careful work with the telescopes he built launched modern astronomy. His [...]

The British scientists are planning to create a super weapon: invisible tanks that could be used on the battle field in five years. The tanks will benefit from the new technology “e-camouflage”, that generates a new kind of pain, an electronically one, that will give the vehicles the color of the surrounding area according to [...]

Year of Discovery: 1609 What Is It? The planets orbit the sun not in perfect circles, but in ellipses. Who Discovered It? Johannes Kepler Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? Even after Copernicus simplified and corrected the structure of the solar system by discovering that the sun, not the earth, lay at the [...]

Year of Discovery: 1598 What Is It? Objects fall at the same speed regardless of their weight. Who Discovered It? Galileo Galilei Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? It seems a simple and obvious discovery. Heavier objects don’t fall faster. Why does it qualify as one of the great discoveries? Because it ended [...]

Year of Discovery: 1543 What Is It? The first scientific, accurate guide to human anatomy. Who Discovered It? Andreas Vesalius Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? The human anatomy references used by doctors through the year A.D. 1500 were actually based mostly on animal studies, more myth and error than truth. Andreas Vesalius [...]

Year of Discovery: A.D. 1520 What Is It? The sun is the center of the universe and the earth rotates around it. Who Discovered It? Nicholaus Copernicus Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? Copernicus measured and observed the planets and stars. He gathered, compiled, and compared the observations of dozens of other astronomers. [...]

Year of Discovery: 260 B.C. What Is It?The two fundamental principles underlying all physics and engineering. Who Discovered It? Archimedes Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? The concepts of buoyancy (water pushes up on an object with a force equal to the weight of water that the object displaces) and of levers (a [...]

The American space agency sold some computers that were used in the space program without deleting some important files on them. The investigation shows that there were 10 cases in which computers were sold without respecting the procedure of deleting the secret data on them. There were even 4 cases in which information was regarded [...]