Dogs can use their superb sense of smell to identify disease in human patients. What’s keeping them from using this ability in the healthcare industry?
In the 1840s, the Leviathan of Parsonstown, built by William Parsons, third Earl of Rosse, became the largest telescope in the world.
Science fiction isn’t limited to predicting tech developments: It’s more broadly concerned with imagining possible futures, or alternative presents.
In country that followed a time-keeping system with variable hours, the fixed-hour clock of the Europeans had only symbolic value.
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Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, and the international ice industry was a booming business. Then refrigeration came along.
The birds aren’t the only ones with their heads in the sand.
It’s only as we brought fire under better control that we stopped thinking so much about it—and, with climate change, that may be shifting again.
The woman who revolutionized the fantasy genre is finally getting her due.
Given its strong gendered associations, it may be surprising that height hasn’t been well studied by historians.
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