In the late 1880s the two giants in the burgeoning field of electricity, namely Thomas Edison and Georges Westinghouse, squared off in what has been called The Battle of The Currents. Edison was...
Four hundred years ago Belgian physician Johann Baptist Van Helmont was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church for promoting the use of the "Powder of Sympathy", a concoction that was supposed to...
In the early 1980鈥檚 and 90鈥檚 toxic shock syndrome was on everybody鈥檚 mind. Its prevalence dominated headlines, inspiring fear in every tampon-using woman across North America. Young adults going...
Malaria kills around 400 thousand聽individuals annually. It鈥檚 the result of a bodily infection by single-celled parasitic organisms from the Plasmodium genus and causes fever, vomiting, chills and...
Emperor Napoleon III offered a prize to anyone who could find "a suitable substance to replace butter for the navy and less prosperous classes."聽The French chemist Hippolyte Mege-Mouries had...
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