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Every autumn, monarch butterflies begin a journey of up to three thousand miles, from southern Canada to a fifty-acre forest in the mountains of Michoacán,...
Every morning, millions of commuters open Waze on their phones and face a small act of trust. The app analyzes real-time traffic data from other...
Johann Sebastian Bach composed over a thousand works in his lifetime — cantatas, fugues, concertos, and some of the most complex music the world has...
In the late 1970s, Keith Green made a decision that baffled the music industry. At the height of his popularity, with albums selling briskly and...
In George MacDonald's *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene receives an extraordinary gift from her mysterious great-great-grandmother — a thread so fine it...
In George MacDonald's *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene receives a gift from her mysterious great-great-grandmother who lives in a hidden tower room:...
After a heart transplant, the surgeon's work is finished — but the patient's obedience has just begun. Tacrolimus, the cornerstone anti-rejection drug prescribed to nearly...
Every autumn, monarch butterflies leave southern Canada and fly nearly three thousand miles to a small cluster of oyamel fir trees in the mountains of...
In the 1950s, biologist Arthur Hasler at the University of Wisconsin wanted to understand something remarkable: how do Pacific salmon, after years wandering thousands of...
When Charles Darwin studied plant roots in the 1880s, he discovered something remarkable. No matter how you turn a seed — sideways, upside down, at...
Neuroscientist Dr. Douglas Fields at the National Institutes of Health discovered something remarkable: every time we repeat an action, our brains wrap the corresponding neural...
Johann Sebastian Bach spent twenty-seven years as music director at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. His contract required him to compose fresh music for every...
NASA's Perseverance rover sits on the surface of Mars, over a hundred million miles from the engineers who built it. Because radio signals take between...
Every autumn, monarch butterflies leave eastern North America and fly up to three thousand miles to a handful of oyamel fir forests in the mountains...
Every iPhone user knows the notification: "iOS Update Available." Apple's engineers have spent months building something better — patching vulnerabilities, improving performance, adding capabilities your...
Every autumn, monarch butterflies launch themselves on a journey of nearly three thousand miles, from southern Canada to a handful of oyamel fir forests high...
Each autumn, roughly a billion monarch butterflies leave southern Canada and fly up to three thousand miles to a fifty-mile stretch of forest in central...
When Alexander Fleming accepted the Nobel Prize in 1945 for his discovery of penicillin, he issued a warning that most of the world ignored. He...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, young Lucy Pevensie discovers a passage to Narnia hidden in the back of an old...
When Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, he handed the world a miracle. Infections that once killed millions could finally be defeated. But physicians soon...
Dr. Thomas Starzl, the father of modern organ transplantation, performed the first successful liver transplant in 1967. But the surgery itself was only half the...