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In the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, Caravaggio's *The Calling of Saint Matthew* has stopped visitors in their tracks for over four...
In music, there is a technique called the grace note. It is a small, ornamental note printed tiny in the score, with no official rhythmic...
Ecologist Suzanne Simard spent years studying the forests of British Columbia and discovered something remarkable. Beneath the forest floor, trees are connected by vast fungal...
In a bone marrow transplant, something medically astonishing happens. After the donor's marrow engrafts, the recipient's blood type can actually change to match the donor's....
In 1965, two radio astronomers at Bell Labs — Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson — could not figure out why their antenna kept picking up...
In the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, just down the hallway from Michelangelo's famous *David*, stand four unfinished sculptures known as the *Prisoners*. These figures appear...
In bone marrow transplantation, something extraordinary happens that most people never hear about. After a successful transplant, the recipient's blood cells no longer carry their...
In the 1990s, neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran at UC San Diego encountered patients tormented by phantom limb pain — soldiers and amputees who felt their missing...
In Japan, there is a centuries-old art form called *kintsugi* — the practice of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. When a...
Every driver knows that moment. You miss the exit on the highway, or you turn left when the directions clearly said right. Maybe you weren't...
In a bone marrow transplant, something remarkable happens that sounds almost too strange to be true. After the donor's marrow is infused into the recipient's...
In Japan, there is an ancient art form called *kintsugi* — the practice of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. When a...