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Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Haue…
Bone Wars
The rivalry between Othniel Charles Marsh (left) and Edward Drinker Cope (right) sparked the Bone Wars.
The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, wa…
Boring Lava Field
The Boring Lava Field (also known as the Boring Volcanic Field) is a Plio-Pleistocene volcanic field of cinder cones, small shield volcanoes, and lava flows in …
Bride of Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein is a 1935 American horror film as well as the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 film Frankenstein. As with the first film, Bride wa…
Calutron
An Alpha calutron tank removed from the magnet for recovery of uranium-235
Alpha I magnet, called the "Racetrack". The calutrons are located around the ring.
A …
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often shortened to Captain Scarlet, is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and f…
Caroline Brady (philologist)
Caroline Agnes Brady (also known as Caroline Agnes Von Egmont Brady; October 3, 1905 – November 5, 1980) was an American philologist who specialised in Old Engl…
Cave Story
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (/ˈdɑːrwɪn/ DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his cont…
Cherry Springs State Park
Cherry Springs State Park is an 82-acre (33 ha)[a] Pennsylvania state park in Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States. The park was created from land wi…
Chicxulub crater
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore co…
Comet Hale–Bopp
Comet Hale–Bopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) is a long-period comet that was one of the most widely observed of the 20th century and one of the brightes…
Comet Hyakutake
Comet Hyakutake (formally designated C/1996 B2) is a comet discovered on 31 January 1996. It was dubbed the Great Comet of 1996; its passage to within 0.1 …
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet that broke apart in July 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the firs…
Cora Agnes Benneson
Cora Agnes Benneson (June 10, 1851 – June 8, 1919) was an American attorney, lecturer, and writer. She was one of the first women to practice law in New England…
Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories
The May 1941 issue of Cosmic Science-Fiction; cover art by Hannes Bok
Cosmic Stories (also known as Cosmic Science-Fiction) and Stirring Science Stories were tw…
Cragside
Cragside is a Tudor Revival country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England. Dating to the Victorian era, it was the home of William Armstron…
Dark Angel (American TV series)
Dark Angel is an American science fiction action drama television series that aired on Fox from October 3, 2000, to May 3, 2002. Created by James Cameron and Ch…
David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter and actor. Regarded as among the m…
David Suzuki: The Autobiography
David Suzuki: The Autobiography is the 2006 autobiography of Canadian science writer and broadcaster David Suzuki. The book focuses mostly on his life since the…
Deathrow (video game)
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Definition of planet
Source: "IAU 2006 General Assembly: Resolutions 5 and 6" (PDF). IAU. August 24, 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 20, 2009. Retrieved June 23, 2009…
Diamond
Diamond is a mineral form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is a tasteless, odorless, strong, b…
Discovery of nuclear fission
The nuclear reaction theorised by Meitner and Frisch with the following nuclear chain reaction theorized by Hahn and Strassmann
Nuclear fission was discovered i…