Everyone here has heard of Halley’s Comet. It is, without a doubt, the most famous…
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Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the scourge of the Western World was…
In the early days of the 1980s, an unknown stalker was doing the rounds in…
In the dying days of the 20th Century, a strange and terrifying plague began to…
It’s one of the worst diseases in history. Smallpox spent millennia as the scourge of…
On 12 April, 1961, Baikonur Cosmodrome in what is now Kazakhstan picked up a transmission…
In February, 1865, an Augustinian friar stood up before a small crowd in the Moravian…
The “Spanish” flu pandemic was the single worst disease episode in modern world history. In…
“He could have added fortune and fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and…
Frederick Sanger might not be a household name, but it’s a rare household today that…
Who do you think of when you hear the words “father of the atomic bomb”?…
“No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books,…
