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In emergency medicine, doctors learn early about a phenomenon called referred pain. A patient rushes in clutching their left arm or rubbing their jaw, certain...
In the 1950s, molecular biologists discovered something remarkable inside living cells: an enzyme called photolyase that repairs damaged DNA using nothing but light. When ultraviolet...
In 1949, a biologist named Albert Kelner made a puzzling discovery. He had been damaging bacterial DNA with ultraviolet radiation, expecting the cells to die....
In 2001, psychologist Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet conducted a study at Hope College that revealed something remarkable about what unforgiveness does to the human body....
In 2004, a team of neuroscientists at University College London led by Dr. Tania Singer conducted a groundbreaking study on empathy and fairness using brain...
In 2001, psychophysiologist Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet conducted a landmark study at Hope College that revealed something pastors have long suspected. She asked participants to...
In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that had puzzled researchers for decades: how our DNA repairs...
In 2015, Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mapping something extraordinary: the mechanisms by which our cells...
Every single day, the DNA inside your cells sustains somewhere between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage. Radiation, toxins, even the simple...
In 2004, neuroscientist Dr. Sara Lazar at Harvard Medical School published groundbreaking research showing that meditation and sustained mental practice physically alter the structure of...
For nearly five centuries, the world assumed Michelangelo painted in somber, muted tones. The Sistine Chapel ceiling — that breathtaking expanse of biblical narrative —...
In 2002, Renee Napier received the phone call every parent dreads. Her daughter Meagan had been killed by a drunk driver named Eric Smallridge. The...
In 2004, neuroscientist Dr. Fred Luskin at Stanford University published research showing that the practice of forgiveness physically changes the brain. His Stanford Forgiveness Project...
For nearly five centuries, the world believed Michelangelo painted in muted, somber tones. The Sistine Chapel ceiling, blackened by hundreds of years of candle smoke...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Fellowship of the Ring*, Frodo learns that the wretched creature Gollum has been skulking behind the Fellowship in the darkness of...
In 1947, when Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field as the first Black player in Major League Baseball, the abuse was relentless. Opposing players spiked...
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a well-meaning country doctor made a devastating mistake. Treating her inflamed eyes with warm mustard poultices, he permanently...
Fanny Crosby was six weeks old when a country doctor applied a hot poultice to her inflamed eyes. The treatment was wrong. The damage was...
In medicine, there is a procedure called debridement. When a wound becomes infected or fills with dead tissue, it cannot heal on its own. The...
In medicine, there is a procedure called debridement — the careful removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue from a wound. It sounds counterintuitive. The...
In Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *Gilead*, the aging Reverend John Ames spends much of his life harboring quiet resentment toward his godson, Jack Boughton....
In the 1950s, astrophysicist Fred Hoyle discovered something remarkable about how stars survive. Deep in the core of every star, nuclear fusion generates enormous pressure...
In 2001, psychologist Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet at Hope College conducted a remarkable study. She asked participants to think about someone who had hurt them deeply...
Surgeons have a procedure called debridement — from the French word meaning "to unbridle" or set free. When a wound becomes infected or filled with...