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When German orthopedic surgeon Julius Wolff published his landmark findings in 1892, he described something that seems almost impossible: bone that breaks and heals often...
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a discovery that still guides orthopedic medicine today. Known as Wolff's Law, his research demonstrated that bone tissue...
In 1516, the German painter Matthias Grünewald completed a massive altarpiece for a monastery hospital in Isenheim, Alsace. The patients there suffered from ergotism —...
In 2006, worship leader Laura Story received news that would reshape her understanding of God's goodness. Her husband Martin was diagnosed with a brain tumor....
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic and stared down at cold, dark water. Somewhere beneath those...
In 1844, a young Irishman named Joseph Scriven stood at the edge of the water where his fiancee had drowned — the evening before their...
In 1737, George Frideric Handel was at the height of his fame when a stroke paralyzed his right side. The hand that had conducted orchestras...
In 1737, George Frideric Handel suffered a massive stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body. Doctors doubted he would ever play again, let...
In 2020, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing technology that has revolutionized medicine. Scientists design...
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a law that still guides orthopedic medicine today. Wolff's Law states that bone adapts to the stress placed...
In November of 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring at the cold water passing beneath him. Two...
In 1941, Henri Matisse was diagnosed with duodenal cancer. The surgery saved his life but left him largely confined to a wheelchair, unable to stand...
Every day, the DNA inside a single human cell sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand molecular lesions — damage from ultraviolet light, environmental...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring down at cold, dark water. Somewhere beneath those waves,...
In 2006, microbiologist Henk Jonkers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands developed something remarkable: self-healing concrete. He embedded dormant bacteria — tiny spores...
In the spring of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The once-celebrated composer had suffered a debilitating stroke four years earlier that paralyzed...
In 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood on stage at the premiere of his Ninth Symphony, completely deaf. He could not hear a single note of...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford received a telegram from his wife Anna that contained just two words: "Saved alone." Their four daughters — Annie, Maggie,...
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. Four years earlier, a stroke had paralyzed his right hand — devastating for a composer and...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the rail of a ship crossing the Atlantic. Days earlier, he had received a telegram from his wife containing...
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a discovery that still guides orthopedic medicine today. Wolff's Law states that bone, when it heals from a...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford received a telegram from his wife Anna that read simply: "Saved alone." Their four daughters — Annie, Maggie, Bessie, and...