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Strange Science: Timeline (12460 words) |
 | 1720-René Réaumur submits a report to the Paris Academy of Sciences proposing that a brief Noachian flood cannot account for the thick sedimentary layers (composed largely of broken shells) underlying the region of Tours. |
| 1723-Antoine de Jussieu addresses a paper to the Académie des Sciences suggesting that an ancient object, e.g., a stone tool, made of the same material and by the same process as those used by a modern population probably has the same function. |
| This single monograph increases tenfold the formally described vertebrates known to science. |
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Instant Nano Blocks: One-step process makes trillions of DNA pyramids: Science News Online, Dec. 10, 2005 (566 words) |
| He and his colleagues at Oxford and Vrije University in Amsterdam describe their new component in the Dec. 9 Science. |
| Because the pyramidal units are stiff, they hold their shapes, says Goodman. |
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