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Topic: history of science

Damaged Books (Getty Images/crPrin)

Going gluten-free could fight bookworms

Rae Hodge
Computer room and workers ca. 1980. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The precursor to ChatGPT from 1966

Karla Erickson
Groundhog in Space (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Groundhog Day's astronomical roots

Nicole Karlis
King Henry I and a Lamprey (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

King Henry I's deadly horror-movie diet

Matthew Rozsa
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | Sperm under a microscope (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The regretful discoverer of sperm

Matthew Rozsa
"What Science Is and How It Really Works" by James C. Zimring (Cambridge University Press/Getty Images)

Why science is a social construct

James C. Zimring
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The fascination over prime numbers

Martin H. Weissman - The Conversation
Albert Einstein (AP/)

Why nobody believed Einstein

Scott Bembenek, PhD
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