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In 2005, Dr. Jonas Frisen at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm made a remarkable discovery. Using carbon-14 traces left in the atmosphere by Cold War...
In 2015, neuroscientist Emily Finn and her team at Yale made a remarkable discovery. Using brain scans from the Human Connectome Project, they found that...
In 2003, scientists completed the Human Genome Project — a thirteen-year effort to map every letter of human DNA. What they discovered astonished them. Your...
Behind your breastbone sits a small organ called the thymus gland. It is where your T-cells — the soldiers of your immune system — go...
In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as the fastest man in Britain, favored to win the 100 meters. Then he...
In the summer of 1924, Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as Scotland's fastest sprinter, heavily favored in the 100 meters. Then he learned...
In the early 1900s, astronomer Annie Jump Cannon sat at her desk at the Harvard Observatory and did something no one had ever attempted. Over...
In 2015, Chris Long, an employee of the Washoe County Sheriff's Office in Reno, Nevada, received a bone marrow transplant from a German donor to...
In 2005, stem cell biologist Jonas Frisen at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm made a remarkable discovery. By measuring carbon-14 levels in human tissue, he...
In 1966, Aretha Franklin was already a recording artist, but the world didn't know her yet. She had spent five years at Columbia Records making...
In the summer of 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as Britain's fastest man. He was the gold medal favorite in...
In Margery Williams' beloved children's classic *The Velveteen Rabbit*, a stuffed toy asks the old Skin Horse what it means to become Real. The Skin...
In Margery Williams's beloved children's book *The Velveteen Rabbit*, a stuffed rabbit sits on a nursery shelf wondering what it means to be real. He...
In 2006, Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka made a discovery that would earn him the Nobel Prize. He found that an ordinary adult skin cell —...
In the summer of 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as the favorite in the 100 meters. Then he learned the...
When Apple introduced Face ID in 2017 with the iPhone X, they built a tiny projector called the TrueDepth camera that floods your face with...
In 1841, a Welsh weaver named Joseph Parry was born into crushing poverty in Merthyr Tydfil. By age nine, he was working in the ironworks,...
In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as Britain's fastest man. He was the favorite in the 100 meters — the...
In 2012, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center published a stunning finding. During pregnancy, cells from the developing baby cross the placental barrier...
When Apple introduced Face ID in 2017, the technology worked by projecting more than thirty thousand invisible infrared dots onto your face, creating a precise...
In the summer of 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as Britain's fastest man. He was the favorite in the 100...
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final carrying years of sacrifice and a singular dream. Then, roughly...
In 1996, researcher Diana Bianchi at Tufts University made a discovery that stunned the scientific world. During pregnancy, cells from the developing baby cross the...
In Margery Williams' children's classic *The Velveteen Rabbit*, a stuffed toy asks the wise old Skin Horse what it means to become Real. The Horse...