Daily MOS: Carrington Event

May 20, 2021 SciBabe 0

Carrington was looking for sunspots and he saw something he couldn’t have expected: the first observed solar flare. For two days shit went bonkers.

Daily MOS: Doggerland

May 17, 2021 SciBabe 0

The glaciers melting set into motion a chain of events that caused the original Brexit. Then there was a tsunami.

Daily MOS: Dr. Charles Drew, the Father of Blood Banks

May 17, 2021 SciBabe 0

He was appointed the medical supervisor of the Blood for Britain project in 1940, amassing donations from about 15,000 people. The plasma was collected to send to the British military before the US entered the war. His work saved the lives of countless soldiers in WWII.