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In the Sistine Chapel, millions of visitors crane their necks each year to see Michelangelo's *The Creation of Adam*, painted between 1508 and 1512. Most...
On December 3, 1967, surgeon Christiaan Barnard stood in an operating room in Cape Town, South Africa, and did what no one had done before...
In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that had puzzled him for decades. He found that every...
In the world of bone marrow transplantation, something happens that sounds more like theology than medicine. After a successful transplant, the recipient's blood type can...
In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that reshaped how we understand life itself. Lindahl found that...
Every second, the DNA inside your cells suffers tens of thousands of lesions — breaks, mismatches, and chemical damage from ultraviolet light, oxidation, and the...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford put his wife and four young daughters on the SS Ville du Havre, bound for England. A successful Chicago lawyer,...
In 2015, Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that had puzzled him for decades. He found that our DNA is...
In 1600, Caravaggio unveiled his masterpiece *The Calling of Saint Matthew* in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. The painting shows a...
Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand lesions — damage from ultraviolet light, from...
In 1600, the Italian painter Caravaggio completed *The Calling of Saint Matthew*, a masterpiece that still hangs in Rome's Contarelli Chapel. The scene is a...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic and stared down at the cold water below. The captain...
In 1901, Austrian physician Karl Landsteiner discovered that human blood falls into distinct types — A, B, AB, and O. Before his breakthrough, blood transfusions...
In 1970, a young artist named Keith Green was a teenage prodigy chasing fame in Hollywood. He had signed his first recording contract at age...
In 1600, Caravaggio unveiled *The Calling of Saint Matthew* in the Contarelli Chapel in Rome. The painting depicts the moment Jesus enters a dim tax...
In 1972, a young session musician named Phil Driscoll sat in a Memphis recording studio, trumpet in hand, playing backup for some of the biggest...
In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. The once-celebrated composer had suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right side. Creditors...
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens was in trouble. The American sprinter had fouled on his first two long jump attempts in qualifying. One...
In 2015, researchers at Harvard Medical School published a landmark study on DNA repair, revealing something extraordinary about the human body. Every single day, each...
Rachel had always been a high achiever. From the time she was a child, she carried the weight of perfectionism on her shoulders—straight A's, first chair in the orchestra, and president of the student council. Yet, no matter her accomplishments,...
Robert Robinson was twenty-two years old when he wrote the words that would haunt him for the rest of his life. It was 1757, and...
In 1600, Caravaggio unveiled *The Calling of Saint Matthew* on the wall of a Roman chapel, and it scandalized nearly everyone who saw it. The...
In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The once-celebrated composer was drowning in debt, his operas failing before half-empty London...
If you have ever missed a highway exit, you know the small mercy of hearing Google Maps say that single word: "Recalculating." The app does...