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NASA provides the following biographical information about Robert Crippen, the pilot on Columbia's first mission:PERSONAL DATA: "Born in Beaumont, Tex...
In 1991, the first of two graves containing the suspected remains of Tsar Nicholas II and members of his family and household were officially opened f...
When scientists created the hybrid dinosaur Indominus Rex, in the Hammond Lab at Jurassic World, they used DNA from Rugops. Meet a recreated Rugops in...
NASA honored Sacajawea when the federal agency used her name to describe an elliptical caldera on the planet Venus.
This image depicts Sam, a monkey who traveled to space during an American space launch.
Image of a drawing depicting Samuel Beckles at his legendary excavation in 1857 on the cliffs of Durlston Bay.
On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message?
This aerial view depicts the San Andreas as it slices through the Carrizo Plain.
The San Andreas Fault - one of the most-famous faults on Earth - is located in California. Long associated with the state's "down side" - California'...
On January 28, 1969, a blowout occurred at an oil-rig platform just off the Santa Barbara coast. The disaster had one good outcome - it is credited wi...
Thanks to the sophisticated technology of the Cassini orbiting space telescope, we are able to see things never-before possible. This image, for exam...
For nearly 50 years, scientists around the world have been thinking about, and searching for, a sub-atomic particle called the "Higgs Boson."Peter Hig...
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