science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee What would be the impact on human society and subsequent moral debates if one of the attempted human-ape hybrid programs succeeded? For the sake of the POD, let's assume said crossbreed is biologically possible (I personally believe it would be, although...

https://newatlas.com/stem-cell-skin-cells-embryos/36221/#:~:text=Researchers%20are%20claiming%20a%20stem%20cell%20research%20breakthrough,may%20allow%20same%20gender%20couples%20to%20produce%20offspring. Having looked into this a little, it seems scientists believe that if it is indeed possible...

Imagine this: the SSC or Superconducting Super Collider is not canceled and instead is revived under new management from the Northern Fermi Laboratory. ♦ The year is 1984. At the National Reference Designs Study, several discussions are proposed about a "new national particle accelerator...

This may seem random, but thanks to both my love for things from dinosaurs to Atlas Obscura, I'm interested in museums, ranging from small local museums to the big metropolitan ones. So, the goal is to make up a museum. it can be one for an ATL municipality, or for an ATL subject, whether human...

Why was Early Modern Britain so conductive to this kind of development, and also have it succeed and not other areas of Earth? What was so special about Britain in this era of History?

I was reading some Wiki articles on the University of Chicago and found out that in the thirties, there was a proposal to merge it with Northwestern into the "Universities of Chicago" due to financial difficulties during the Great Depression. This is extremely interesting to me, as both...

How do you think European (and later American) history could have progressed if Martin Luther, John Calvin, and other Reformers would have been butterflied away? When encountering these debates on online forums, I've read pretty mixed-bag responses. A Catholic for example told me, that a Moon...

As I type tonight, somewhere in New York City Frank Ocean is presiding over an exclusive queer party in an undisclosed location. The event is called "PrEP+" after PrEP, the acronym for pre-exposure prophylaxis, the newly-mainstream practice of people at high risk of contracting HIV taking the...

In 1895, German professor Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a new type of radiation. The name he gave them - "X-rays" - was intended to be a placeholder, but it stuck. How plausible is it that someone could've discovered X-rays (or whatever name they end up getting) before Röntgen?

I've read that Chinese scientific advancement was held back by their lack of glassmaking, since transparent glass is so important to scientific development. How true is this? And if China had a domestic glassmaking industry, would Chinese science have been more advanced?

The idea behind this comes from a fair amount of tropes found in steampunk that are way beyond plausibility ("oh Zeppelins everywhere in 1890..."), but nevertheless show that there is potential in a lot of technologies of the time. The topic in itself is fairly broad, since it can cover any...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Green_(merchant) Could the early publication of his works bring Kants philosophy to the fore in Britain? OTL published in English only in 1900, how could Georgian and Victorian Britain have differed? Might Kant have been taught comparatively alongside Hume...

What would be the effects on the science, if Al-Khawarizmi, instead of writing his Algebra in sentences, used symbols to describe what he demonstrated ? What if the idea of functions and their graph spread in the high middle age ? How would affect science and its history ? P-S : I don't say that...

______________________________ ______________________________ 'In search of better things, Over the Ocean we sailed, In search of the light bright, We built our new homes.' From the shores of great lakes, To the shores of east and west, From the frost of the north, To the scorch of the...

France adopting and codifying the metric system obviously had a profound impact on the continental powers when it came to scientific research. Before adopting the system, France had regional weights and measures, often times with the same names, but differing somewhat in application. What would...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condemnations_of_1210–1277 So what if peripatetic physics was permanently kicked to to the curb in the High Middle Ages? How could that effect the future trajectory of history and science?

Throughout World War Two-oriented media, Nazi Germany is depicted as a powerhouse, especially in the fields of science and technology. From advanced spacecraft to superheavy tanks, their alleged mastery of engineering is displayed for every consumer of such media to see. Judging by internet...

The Point of Divergence ... In the early years of the 20th Century, scientific advancements were made in the discovery of antibiotics. Several drugs were developed to help curb the spread of germs, bacteria and diseases. One of the most prominent examples would be penicillin. As a result...

Already did a similar topic. Here I would like to give more to the possible impact of the fork on science and the philosophical picture of the world. I can also tell you about the Soviet tendencies in the science and philosophy of the USSR.

What do you guys think is the earliest that evolution could have been discovered, or at least hypothesized? I would assume a working theory of evolution would have to include the following observations/conclusions, but please correct me if I'm wrong: - that diverse organisms are related in some...