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Ancient Mesopotamians first used equations as balance scales to solve area calculations.

iker10 A golden balance scale holds algebraic equations in perfect equilibrium on both sides.

14h ago

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El rostro de Hidalgo en las pinturas es en realidad el de su hermano.

iker10 Explore historical images of Mexican Independence, including the Dolores Church, the historic bell, and portraits of Miguel Hidalgo.

2d ago

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Secret codes helped Mexican conspirators safely plan a four-stage revolution that began in 1810.

iker10 A dark wooden tab displaying secret codes used by Mexican conspirators.

2d ago

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Leopoldo Río de la Loza first isolated oxygen and nitrogen in a Mexican lab.

iker10 A portrait of mature, dark-haired Mexican scientist Leopoldo Río de la Loza.

3d ago

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Luis Ernesto Miramontes synthesized the key ingredient for the first contraceptive pill in 1951.

iker10 A young Luis Ernesto Miramontes wears a white lab coat.

3d ago

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Science took thirty years to accept vanadium, the only chemical element discovered in Mexico.

iker10 Andres Manuel del Rio works inside a stone-walled laboratory in Mexico City.

3d ago

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German chemist Fritz Haber created both life-saving fertilizer and deadly chemical weapons.

iker10 Bald chemist Fritz Haber wears round glasses, a mustache, and a high-collared suit.

3d ago

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Rosalind Franklin used X-ray diffraction to reveal the double helix structure of DNA.

iker10 Rosalind Franklin stands inside her biophysics laboratory at King's College London.

3d ago

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Gilbert N. Lewis explained how atoms share electrons and invented molecular dot structures.

iker10 A bespectacled chemist in a 1930s suit stands inside a university laboratory.

4d ago

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Linus Pauling is the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.

iker10 Elderly Linus Pauling wears a black knit beret and wire-rimmed glasses.

4d ago

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Dorothy Hodgkin mapped the complex 3D structures of penicillin and insulin entirely by hand.

iker10 Dorothy Hodgkin wears wire-rimmed glasses while working in her Oxford laboratory.

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One legendary chemistry giant actually won two Nobel Prizes in different scientific fields

iker10 Cluttered glass scientific equipment sits on a wooden workbench inside a historic laboratory

4d ago

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Sexual education gives Buenos Aires teenagers the daily tools to protect their own bodies.

iker10 Diverse teenagers sit around a large wooden table in a Buenos Aires classroom.

Sep 9