Her principal qualifications for writing a biography of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin are that she, like Dorothy before her, lives in Oxford and is clearly familiar with the Byzantine workings of the ...

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Imagine Donald Trump wearing a top hat. He would have had to if his inauguration had been a few decades earlier, when the hat was required attire at the ceremony for the incoming president.

Why should we appreciate our nervous system? Read these 11 fun facts and you’ll know why: 1. The body has billions of nerve cells Every person’s body contains billions of nerve cells (neurons).

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Born April 27, 1927, in Heiberger, Alabama, she faced segregation head-on from childhood, walking five miles to school while ...

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division Ahead of Inauguration Day on January 20th, learn five interesting inaugural trivia from The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia. 1.

I am an independent Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, heading the naturalistic experience group. My group investigates the neural mechanisms underlying real-world behaviours by using naturalistic ...

Below are 14 facts about Pompeii. Pompeii is situated about 14 miles southeast of Naples in the Campania region of southern Italy. The settlement was built on fertile lava terraces at the bottom ...