Natural Sciences
The Inventor of Air
Known for discovering oxygen, scientist Joseph Priestly also influenced the beliefs of our founding fathers
Wing Shortage Looms On Eve of Super Bowl
About 5 percent of the nation's chicken wings are eaten on that day - the product of a staggering 300 million chickens
Sketching the Earliest Views of the New World
The watercolors that John White produced in 1585 gave England its first startling glimpse of America
How Taxonomy Helps Us Make Sense Out of the Natural World
We all have a need to classify plants and animals, which is what the National Museum of Natural History does on a grand scale
Pliny's World: All the Facts and Then Some
In A.D. 77 a workaholic called Pliny the Elder published the first encyclopedia, Natural History. Headless people were among the many marvels
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