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The Horses That Couldn't Pull Apart
The Horses That Couldn't Pull Apart

In 1654, Otto von Guericke used sixteen horses and two copper spheres to prove that air has weight,…

The Sunless Glow
The Sunless Glow

How a rainy Paris week and a forgotten drawer led Henri Becquerel to discover natural radioactivity…

The Needle That Bent to Lightning
The Needle That Bent to Lightning

How a single 1820 lecture experiment unified electricity and magnetism, sparking the modern electri…