Did Comas Solà discover Titan's atmosphere?

How Einstein Did Not Discover

What powered Einstein’s discoveries? Was it asking naïve questions, stubbornly? Was it a mischievous urge to break rules? Was it the destructive power of operational thinking? It was none of these. Rather, Einstein made his discoveries through lengthy, mundane investigations, pursued with tenacity and discipline. We have been led to think otherwise in part through Einstein’s brilliance at recou...

Did Ragnar Frisch discover input - output economics ?

Ragnar Frisch on various occasions claimed that he had invented input-output analysis in a 1934 paper titled “Circulation planning”. Although prominently published in Econometrica, Frisch’s contribution has hardly been discussed in the input-output literature. Frisch’s paper was an attempt to explain the incapsulating phenomena of economic depressions and thus arose from a different motivation ...

Did Paul Kammerer discover epigenetic inheritance? No and why not.

In a recent article in this journal, Alexander Vargas presents a new, epigenetic explanation of Paul Kammerer's controversial midwife toad experiments, but he has constructed his model without first reading Kammerer's original articles. A look at the articles shows that Vargas is seriously misinformed about what Kammerer did and what the results even were. His model simply cannot explain the re...

Targeting Hepatocellular Carcinoma: What did we Discover so Far?

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is increasingly considered an issue of global importance. Its rates of incidence and mortality have been markedly increasing over the last decades. Among risk factors, some should be highlighted, namely the infections by hepatitis B and C virus, as well as clinical cases of cirrhosis. HCC is characterized as asymptomatic disease in the initial stages which most of...

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