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For the 100th birthday of Science News, we are connecting current events with the currents of the past to reveal how science will continue to shape our future. Here is a collection of stories and ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

This kind of thinking would be as important as science for the invention of the transistor. Edison's discovery that current can travel through a vacuum didn't turn out to be very useful ...

Thomson initially thought his corpuscles were much too small to be of interest to anyone outside a science lab. However, people quickly realized that electric current was in fact made of moving ...