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Every second of every day, a violent stream of charged particles races from the sun toward Earth at over a million miles per hour. This...
In 1864, German zoologist August Weismann first described something astonishing happening inside a chrysalis. When a caterpillar enters its cocoon, it does not simply sprout...
In 1943, a small congregation in Birmingham, Alabama gathered in a borrowed basement to plan their first church building. They had no architect, no contractor,...
In 2018, a nineteen-year-old college student named Jordan Rice received a new heart after three years on the transplant waiting list at Emory University Hospital...
In 45 BC, Julius Caesar did something that would reshape the Roman Empire forever. He adopted his eighteen-year-old grandnephew, Octavian — a sickly young man...
In the 1950s, Mahalia Jackson was the most celebrated gospel voice in America — the "Queen of Gospel," sought after by European concert halls, the...
When Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at Morehouse College in 1944, he was just fifteen years old — a skinny kid from Atlanta who had...
Elena Rodriguez signed up for Spanish classes the year her abuela moved from San Salvador to the apartment downstairs. For eighteen months, she filled three...
At the Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney, trained handlers pin down eastern brown snakes, taipans, and death adders to milk venom from their fangs....
Orthopedic surgeons know something that surprises most patients: a healed bone fracture is often the strongest point in the entire bone. When a bone breaks,...
In neonatal intensive care units across the country, nurses practice what they call "kangaroo care." When a premature infant — sometimes weighing barely two pounds...
In 2019, eleven-year-old Gitanjali Rao was named TIME Magazine's first-ever Kid of the Year. Her parents, Bharathi and Ram, had driven her to a science...
At the Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney, handlers milk eastern brown snakes — the second most venomous land snake on earth — by pressing...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a quiet moment that nearly every reader remembers. Sam Gamgee lies exhausted in the land...
On the Norwegian island of Svalbard, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, a concrete portal juts from a frozen mountainside. The Svalbard Global...
Every Thursday evening for eleven years, retired cross-country coach Dave Simmons of Flagstaff, Arizona, dialed the same six phone numbers. His former runners had scattered...
In 1800, a fifteen-year-old Welsh girl named Mary Jones set out barefoot from her village of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, walking twenty-five miles across rugged mountain terrain to...
Your heart pumps roughly 2,000 gallons of blood every single day — enough to fill a backyard swimming pool every week. And here is what...
George Frideric Handel's father despised music. A respected barber-surgeon in Halle, Germany, he forbade instruments in the house and insisted his son would become a...
In October 1536, William Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake near Brussels, his final words a prayer: "Lord, open the King of England's...
In specialty coffee roasting, everything depends on a sound most beginners cannot hear. It is called "first crack" — the precise moment the beans pop...
In the spring of 1953, Billy Graham arrived in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for a crusade and found the auditorium divided — ropes strung down the center...
In 2013, forensic scientists at the University of Oxford confirmed what detectives had long observed: identical twins, who share every strand of DNA, still have...
In 1732, two young Moravian men named Johann Leonard Dober and David Nitschmann stood on the docks of Copenhagen with a radical plan. They had...