Tag: science

Remembering Marie Curie 90 Years Later

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Ninety years ago, on July 4, 1934, one of the world’s most influential and greatest scientists passed away.  Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the only woman to win a Nobel Prize for two separate scientific fields, died as a result of aplastic anemia caused by the action of radiation. Born as […]

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Time machine: 100 years ago to 1924 daily life in USA

.Reading time 12 minutes.

Jump in to our time machine as we take you back 100 years to the United Sates in 1924. What was going on in the daily lives of people, what events were happening? Are there things we do now that were surprisingly similar all that time ago? When you do see something in these images […]

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Goodbye to the Queen of the Skies

.Reading time 9 minutes.

Nearly 54 years after the first Boeing 747 left the factory floor, the storied history of the “Queen of the Skies” came to an end on Tuesday, January 31 as the last 747 Boeing will ever make was entered into service.  The delivery of this final 747 marked an end to the extraordinary life of the […]

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Yeager breaks sound barrier!

.Reading time 6 minutes.

Seventy-five years ago the sound barrier was broken by Chuck Yeager. It is October 14, 1947, over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California. A former WW2 flight officer named Chuck Yeager (1923-2020), a test pilot with the US Air Force sitting at the controls of a Bell X-1 rocket plane drops from the modified bomb bay […]

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Image Quest

.Reading time 6 minutes.

Thanks to our focus on educational subjects, UIG has enjoyed a long and successful partnership with Encyclopaedia Britannica, helping them curate and manage the Image Quest online educational image database, a global product that is offered to individual schools, educational authorities, and ministries.  The product is licensed under a subscription model and students and teachers access […]

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History of Physics

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Physics is the science that deals with the physical properties and composition of matter and energy, and the physical processes and phenomena of a particular system.  Physics, to many, may seem difficult to understand or relate to, but evidence of the study of physics are all around us and impact our lives daily. We see physics […]

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