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This clip is from The Agony and the Ecstasy, a 1965 film about the Italian artist Michelangelo and his incredible:sculptures (such as the Moses, David...
Working on Deepwater Horizon, Mike Williams had to jump approximately ten stories from the rig to save his life.
What does the Central Gulf of Mexico look like, from a geological perspective?
The Mississippi Canyon, a geological formation in the Gulf of Mexico, is located in an area which is part of the territorial waters of the United Stat...
Not a main tourist destination, Molokai is famous for the work of a Belgian priest, Father Damien de Veuster, who cared for patientswith Leprosy.
Carefully setting-up a test to determine what may have caused Columbia to explode during the Orbiter's re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, NASA disc...
One of the reasons why the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is so effective is that it peers into space from Low-Earth Orbit.
Our neuron transmitting system works well when nothing interferes with the process. Cocaine, however, substantially interfereswith the process.
During the Nazi occupation of Norway, all radios were forbidden. Any Norwegian caught with a radio, or listening to foreign broadcasts, was subject to...
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb on August 29, 1949.
Nuclear fusion is the process that heats the Sun. It happens when small atomic nuclei collide together, then fuse to form heavier nuclei (thereby rel...
How do Boiling Water Reactors work?
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