AKA: Living organisms can - and frequently do - arise from non-living matter (e.g. flies can arise from dust). Theory born: circa 4th...

AKA: The movement of continents is caused by the gradual expansion of the Earth. Theory born: 1834 Parent(s): Charles Darwin, Ott...

AKA: Heat is actually an invisible, unsubstantial, self-repellent fluid called 'caloric' that flows from hot places to cold places....

AKA: Worlds within worlds. Theory born: Ancient/1692 Parent(s): Edmond Halley Edmond Halley, Astronomer Royal, b. 1656, d. 1743...

AKA: All electrons in existence are actually all the same electron. Theory born: 1940 Parent(s): John Wheeler Description: There are a...

The goddess Aphrodite lit a fire in the eye, so things would be seen with magic eye beams. But why didn't the magic eye beams work at night?

"It took them only an instant to cut off this head, and one hundred years might not suffice to reproduce its like."

The index of the Transition States series.

Joseph Gay-Lussac was an enthusiastic hot air balloonist, but he was an ingenious chemist and physicist first. However, it was his...