Science, Technology & Medicine

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (193+ words) Documents collated in a new book challenge five centuries of history by identifying Columbus as a prince born on the Portuguese island of Madeira. What if Christopher Columbus was not Christopher Columbus? A 35-year investigation drawing on archival material from…...

2+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1303+ words) include the Columbia, Colorado, Snake, and Missouri, where dams power cities, water farms, and reshape river ecosystems. During the 19th and 20th centuries, America's rivers were harnessed to help power a growing nation. Engineers, often from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and…...

10+ hour, 24+ min ago   (222+ words) From 1976: The Spokane County Health District began swine flu immunizations “for persons 57 or older, diabetics and those with heart, lung or kidney conditions.” This was the beginning of a nationwide push for swine flu vaccinations. However, questions about the program…...

6+ hour, 16+ min ago   (1311+ words) Want more Life's Little Mysteries? Archaeologists and geographers have been trying to estimate the pre-1492 population of the Americas for decades. But it's difficult. When Christopher Columbus made landfall in the Americas on Oct. 12, 1492, he encountered Indigenous Lucayans living on…...

20+ hour, 38+ min ago   (954+ words) So why does the world remember one Otis and forget the other? The forgotten one is generally credited with building the first working steam shovel. Every excavator on a building site today still does the two things his machine did: it…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (208+ words) Dr. John Handwerker, Key Biscayne's first doctor. When Dr. John Handwerker and his wife Dr. Alma Trappolini announced their plans to move to Key Biscayne in 1951, their medical colleagues thought they were crazy. Only 350 families lived on the island at…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (968+ words) Harriet Martineau was one of the first people to write about economics in a popular way One of the world's first professional female journalists deserves far greater recognition, especially in her home town of Norwich, according to a historian. Harriet…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (376+ words) A piece of Dubbo history has found a fitting home, with a framed tribute to Thomas “Bomber” Carney now proudly displayed at Dubbo Regional Airport – a place where Bomber spent a significant part of his remarkable 42-year career with Dubbo…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (522+ words) WorldAtlas Just about all American counties are estimated to record at least one birth each year, but the latest Census Bureau population estimates identify two exceptions. Harding County, New Mexico, and Kalawao County, Hawaii, were the only county-level jurisdictions estimated…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (217+ words) Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born on Tuesday, Dec. 25, 1821, in Oxford, Mass. She was the fifth of five children born to Stephen and Sarah Barton. Clara Barton founded the first chapter of the American Red Cross in Dansville. She developed her…...