Xulio Sousa Shutterstock / paula sierra In the eighties of the last century the Italian geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza began the publication of a series
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History of terrestrial radio
The Greek philosopher and mathematician Thales of Miletus believed that the Earth was a disk floating in a sea of water. For his disciple Anaximander
History of plate tectonics
In 1912 the German physicist Alfred Wegerner formulated the hypothesis of continental drift or displacement of the continental masses. This proposal was widely debated, among
History of the environmental movement
The marine biologist Rachel Carson compiled a series of articles in the book "Silent Spring" that she published in 1962 in the New Yorker magazine.
Fifteen viruses that have changed the history of mankind
Raúl Rivas González Longbyearbyen Cemetery (Svalbard Islands, Norway) where lies a group of miners victims of the 1918 flu epidemic. Shutterstock / bmszealand The royal
History of color blindness
John Dalton was a prolific British scientist. Chemist, physicist and mathematician, he was born with a genetic alteration that today we know as color blindness.
History of the first social network
Social networks are applications or tools used to publish, disseminate and share content among members of a community and promote interaction and connection between those
History of the light bulb
Incandescent bulbs gave us light in the 20th century. Undoubtedly, the light bulb has been one of the most important advances in history and together
History of Super Glue
In the early 1940s, chemist Harry Wesley Coover discovered Super Glue by accident. World War II was going on, and Coover and his team were
The history of Cruz Gallastegui and hybrid corn
" To keep maize varieties pure they must be planted separately so that they do not interbreed." Charles Darwin, The variation of animals and plants