📁 Discoveries
Eureka moments and groundbreaking theorems
Discover how Gregory Pincus and John Rock developed the first oral contraceptive, Enovid, and chang…
How Karl Ziegler and Erhard Holzkamp replaced dangerous 2000-atmosphere reactors with a simple glas…
In 1859, Richard Carrington sketched a solar flare that caused global auroras and fried telegraph l…
In 1848, Louis Pasteur used a microscope and tweezers to separate mirror-image crystals, proving mo…
How a tiny 8-arcminute error forced Johannes Kepler to abandon perfect circles and discover the ell…
In 1953, Stanley Miller used sparks and simple gases to prove life's building blocks could form wit…
In 1851, Léon Foucault used a 67-meter pendulum and a tray of sand under the Panthéon to prove the …
In the 1970s, Vera Rubin used spectroscopy to measure galaxy rotation and discovered flat rotation …
Discover how Tim Berners-Lee solved a maddening paperwork problem at CERN in 1989, inventing the Wo…
Discover how Alexander von Humboldt's brutal climb up Chimborazo volcano in 1802 revealed the hidde…
Discover how a young engineer in 1902 solved a Brooklyn printing crisis by controlling invisible wa…
In 1985, three scientists trying to understand space dust accidentally discovered C60, a perfectly …