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Chemistry

Casimir Funk: The scientist who gave us the word 'vitamin'

Biochemist Casimir Funk realised that certain compounds in our diet are essential for keeping us healthy – but he wasn't the first to isolate a vitamin

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2NGGYHG Polish-born American biochemist Dr. Casimir Funk, who coined the term vitamin, is shown at work in his new research laboratory on W. 64th Street in New York City on Jan. 12, 1953. (AP Photo)

Physics

A brief history of the standard model, our theory of almost everything

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Subatomic particles and atoms, conceptual illustration.

Environment

Eunice Newton Foote: The woman who discovered the greenhouse effect

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Society

English industrialist stole iron technique from Black metallurgists

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Life

Was DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin really a victim of scientific theft?

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Bamboo forest

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11th-century polymath was the first to recognise past climate change

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The FRAMe Project functional model in comparison to the Fragment A visual and the AMRP X-Ray images. The central large gear-b1 with the four arms is visible. The Fragments of the Mechanism are exhibited in National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Greece.

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Ancient computer may have had its clock set to 23 December 178 BC

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We must recognise science’s unsung global pioneers to alter its future

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We must recognise science’s unsung global pioneers to alter its future

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