The Human Genome Project
In the spring of 2003, in a press conference held jointly with Francis Collins and Bill Clinton in the East Room of the White…
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The Apollo Program and the Lunar Landing
On the morning of July 16, 1969, a Saturn V rocket the height of a thirty-six-storey building lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at…
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The Compact Disc
The Compact Disc was the consumer audio format that replaced the vinyl LP in the early 1980s. It was a five-inch,…
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The Fermi Paradox and Sixty-Five Years of SETI
The Fermi Paradox is named after a conversation among Enrico Fermi, Emil Konopinski, Edward Teller, and Herbert York in the summer of 1950,…
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Admiral Hugh Sinclair and the Case for Putting Him Back
Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair ran MI6 from 1923 to 1939, the longest tenure in the service's history. He built the signals intelligence apparatus that…
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The ENIAC
The Moore School had been one of the leading electrical engineering schools in the United States since the 1920s.…
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The Haber-Bosch Process
On a July morning in 1909, in a small laboratory at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe, a German physical chemist and his assistant opened a…
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Why So Many Jews in STEM?
Jews make up roughly 0.2 percent of the world’s population, but they have won about 22 percent of all Nobel Prizes, 24 percent of…
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