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In 2005, Dr. Sarah Sallon and Dr. Elaine Solowey did something botanists considered impossible. They germinated a date palm seed that had been buried in...
In 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood on stage in Vienna for the premiere of his Ninth Symphony. He had spent years composing it — carefully...
In 1956, Dr. E. Donnall Thomas performed what many considered impossible — the first successful bone marrow transplant. His patient's own marrow had turned against...
Rembrandt van Rijn painted *The Return of the Prodigal Son* around 1668, in the final year of his life. By then, he had buried his...
In 2005, Dr. Sarah Sallon and Dr. Elaine Solowey did something that seemed impossible. They took a date palm seed excavated from the ruins of...
In 2017, researchers Séverine Martini and Steve Haddock at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute published a remarkable finding: in the deepest zones of the...
In May of 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood on a stage in Vienna to premiere his Ninth Symphony. He was almost entirely deaf. He could...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford received the most devastating telegram a father could imagine. His four daughters had drowned when their ship sank crossing the Atlantic....
In 1995, astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny patch of sky near the constellation Ursa Major — a patch so small you...
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a man the world had written off. His health was failing — a stroke had partially paralyzed his right...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his wife and four daughters on the SS Ville du Havre, bound for England. He planned to follow soon after....
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic, and the captain called him to the bridge. "This is...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring down at the cold waters that had swallowed his four...
In 1921, a young surgeon named Frederick Banting walked into a laboratory at the University of Toronto with an idea that most of his colleagues...
In December 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit nearly a million miles from Earth. When its instruments finally opened, scientists wept...
In 2005, Dr. Sarah Sallon and botanist Elaine Solowey attempted something most scientists considered impossible. They planted a date palm seed recovered from the ruins...
In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The once-celebrated composer had suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right hand. His...
In the final decade of his life, Claude Monet was going blind. Cataracts clouded his vision so severely that the world dissolved into muddy browns...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Two Towers*, there is a moment when Sam Gamgee and Frodo sit exhausted on the stairs of Cirith Ungol, the shadow...
When Fanny Crosby was just six weeks old, a man claiming to be a doctor applied a hot mustard poultice to her inflamed eyes. The...
In 2004, Dr. Jerome Groopman, a Harvard oncologist, published *The Anatomy of Hope*, documenting decades of research into what happens inside the human body when...
In the early sixteenth century, the German painter Matthias Grunewald completed one of the most extraordinary works in the history of Christian art — the...
In Alexandre Dumas's *The Count of Monte Cristo*, a young sailor named Edmond Dantès is falsely accused and thrown into an island prison with no...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a moment that has quietly sustained readers for generations. Sam Gamgee lies exhausted in the...