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Century of Science

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Themes

Explore major advances across the sciences to see how we arrived at today’s view of our world

Our climate change crisis

The future of computing

The human blueprint

Quantum reality

Materials that made us

Epidemics and their aftermath

The human story

The science of us

Other worlds

The mystery of reproduction

Cracking the atom

Our brains, our futures

Our wild universe

Shaking up Earth

Connections

Uncover links that illuminate the process and nature of the scientific endeavor

Unsung characters

Let’s talk

New vistas

Twists and turns

Human imagination

Milestones

Create a timeline of discoveries, advances and turning points that you care about most

Published in 1929

Historical picture of Edwin Hubble

Expanding cosmos

Published in 1945

Dropping the bomb

Published in 1964

Chimpanzee tools

Published in 1996

First cloned mammal

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Spotlights

Read stories of the people, projects and technologies that inspired a Century of Science

Marie Tharp looks over a map on a table

Marie Tharp’s groundbreaking maps brought the seafloor to the world

January 13, 2021

image of pluto

The definition of planet is still a sore point – especially among Pluto fans

August 24, 2021

illustration of nerve cells

Controlling nerve cells with light opened new ways to study the brain

June 18, 2021

black and white image of swirls that represent subatomic particles

How particle detectors capture matter’s hidden, beautiful reality

August 5, 2021

image of J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.

Mathematician J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. was a Manhattan Project standout despite racism

June 22, 2021

illustration of the letter p with a less than symbol and .05 above scientists doing various calculations

How the strange idea of ‘statistical significance’ was born

August 12, 2021

black and white photo of a man in a cap with glasses leaning over a tabletop device while another man looks on

A WWII submarine-hunting device helped prove the theory of plate tectonics

July 2, 2021

a row of radio telescopes at the Very Large Array

How radio astronomy put new eyes on the cosmos

August 31, 2021

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