The ozone hole
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), who operate in research stations in the British Antarctic Territory, published their discovery of the ‘hole’ in […]
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), who operate in research stations in the British Antarctic Territory, published their discovery of the ‘hole’ in […]
The Loch Ness Monster, or ‘Nessie’ as she is affectionately known, has long been a draw for tourists to the Inverness area […]
Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-98), born in Hertfordshire and mainly self-educated, gave his name to the Bessemer steel process and the Bessemer converter, […]
The 1945 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine recognised three men whose efforts brought about the production of the world’s first antibiotic, […]
In late December 1980 there occurred the world’s best-documented UFO incident in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. This was the site of the […]
Dolly the sheep became famous for being the first publicly known mammal to be cloned. This caused much controversy, as it was […]
British archaeologist, Howard Carter (1874-1939), born in London, discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in 1922. […]
The ‘crop circle‘ phenomenon began in the 1970s on the farmlands of south-west England, particularly in Wiltshire. It continues to this day. […]
The Neolithic stone circles at Avebury, roughly 23 miles from Stonehenge in Wiltshire, were among many hundreds of such circles in Britain. […]
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) closed its telephone hotline for the reporting of UFO sightings in 2009. This was perhaps partly because […]
Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) was an extremely talented chemist, poet and inventor. Born in Cornwall and employed in Bristol at the Pneumatic […]
Halley’s comet, officially called 1P/Halley, is named after Dr. Edmund Halley (1656-1742) from London, who was the first to calculate that it […]
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