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The founder of the prestigious magazine ‘Nature’ was Warwickshire-born Sir Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) and its first edition in 1869 includes his description […]
The founder of the prestigious magazine ‘Nature’ was Warwickshire-born Sir Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) and its first edition in 1869 includes his description […]
The Eddington Limit (or Luminosity) is a measurement of the the maximum brightness of, say, a star before it starts to blow […]
At the time that secretin was discovered, post-Industrial Revolution, scientific materialists were encouraging the idea of a living body being just another […]
Louise Brown, born in Lancashire in 1978, and Alastair MacDonald, born in Glasgow six months later, were the world’s first ‘test-tube babies’. […]
Mathematician and physicist Sir James Chadwick (1891-1974) from Cheshire discovered the third type of sub-atomic particle, namely neutrons, for which he received […]
Staffordshire-born Henry Joseph Round (1881-1966) lived and breathed engineering and was affectionately nicknamed ‘the tame wizard’ by his colleagues at the Marconi […]
The first dinosaur bone to be identified as such, albeit 166 years later, was dug up in 1676 on Sir Thomas Pennyston’s […]
With air travel increasing in popularity in the early 1950s, scientists were faced with the new problem of jet noise. Nowadays this […]
Lancashire-born William Lassell (1799-1880) grew up in Liverpool within a clock-making family, acquiring the precision engineering skills needed for his lifelong passion […]
Sir W.M. Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) did not know his grandfather, Lincolnshire-born Captain Matthew Flinders (1774-1814), who was the first to survey Australia’s […]
West Kennet Long Barrow (WKLB), near the Avebury stone circles in Wiltshire, is one of 180 barrows in southern England. At 328ft. […]
The Falkland Islands are a British Overseas Territory just north of the British Antarctic Territory and south-east of Argentina. English mariner John […]
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