The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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In 1835 it was discovered that a disease of silkworms known as muscardine could be transferred from one silkworm to another, and was caused by a fungus.
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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
Thyroid scan. The right image is the data from a thyroid scan, printed on a superimposed map of the
Time dependence of the rates of a chemical reaction
That politics was always a rough business is shown in this cartoon, which shows Lincoln, assisted by
Prestige can sometimes be converted into property. Shown here is “Snooki” Polizzi, a reality ...