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Category: Throwback Thursday

Welcome to Sciworthy’s Throwback Thursday feature article section, where we dig into the history of science and find classic scientific papers that made a critical contribution to the science, and thus the world, that we know today. New articles are published on the third Thursday of every month.

The simple lab technique that changed everything How the discovery and validation of a simple lab technique called PCR by Kary Mullis and his team in the 1980’s helped science take a leap forward in understanding genetics and improved our society.

November 19, 2020 by Justin Dingman Read More

Black holes and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity How mathematician Roger Penrose’s black hole modeling in 1965 provided evidence for the Theory of Relativity and earned him the 2020 Nobel Prize.

October 22, 2020 by Justin Dingman Read More

Laboratory methods behind the polio vaccine discovery In 1949, Harvard scientists established a few tissue culture tricks that not only allowed Jonas Salk to develop the polio vaccine, but also became standard practice when growing polio in the lab. His team was awarded a Nobel Prize.

September 24, 2020 by Gina Misra Read More

Manipulating the forces of nature with gene editing This 2005 study explains the discovery of CRISPR-cas9, the tool used in gene editing. It has been used in research on agriculture, cancer, infectious disease, genetic disorders, and more.

August 27, 2020 by Jocelyn Solis-Moreira Read More

The Chemistry of Fireworks How the ancient Chinese discovery of gunpowder and a scientist burning different metals led to the fireworks we know and love today

July 16, 2020 by Justin Dingman Read More

Why We Have Gadgets: Electromagnetism James Clerk Maxwell was the first person to finally prove the relationship between electricity and magnetism using math, unifying the two theories and allowing for much faster advancement.

June 18, 2020 by Justin Dingman Read More

Who figured out the structure of DNA? Watson and Crick pieced together decades of data to propose the double helix. Here's how they did it.

May 21, 2020 by Gina Misra Read More

How did we discover the first virus? The recovery of the cause of tobacco mosaic disease by Dimitri Ivanovsky eventually lead to the discovery of the first virus.

April 23, 2020 by Justin Dingman Read More

Looking Back on Dyson Spheres It might be possible that civilizations eventually develop large spherical shells that can catch all of the light emitted from their stars - an idea famously credited to the late Freeman Dyson.

March 20, 2020 by Graham Lau Read More

O, the Drama! The discovery of oxygen How oxygen’s controversial discovery dismantled the phologiston era and changed science forever

February 20, 2020 by Justin Dingman Read More

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