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In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard with greedy thoughts in his heart...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the disagreeable boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes up transformed into...
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with the force of five hundred atomic bombs. Two hundred thirty square miles of old-growth forest were...
In 1993, Johnny Cash was a man the music industry had discarded. Dropped by his record label after three decades, battling addiction and health problems,...
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes orthopedic medicine today. He observed that when a bone fractures and heals, the...
In 2022, Google introduced a feature on its Pixel phones called Photo Unblur. Using machine learning, it takes old photographs — blurry, faded, damaged by...
In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that upended what biologists assumed about life: DNA, the molecule...
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with the force of five hundred atomic bombs, flattening 230 square miles of old-growth forest in minutes....
Every single day, inside every cell of your body, your DNA sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage — from sunlight,...
Every cell in your body is under constant assault. Ultraviolet radiation, environmental toxins, even the ordinary act of metabolism generates molecules that damage your DNA...
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. The composer who had once dazzled the courts of Europe now faced crushing debt, failing health,...
In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave near Chattanooga, Tennessee, to die. Years of amphetamine and barbiturate addiction had stripped away nearly everything —...
In 2015, biochemist Aziz Sancar shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for revealing something remarkable about the human body: we are constantly breaking and constantly...
In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave outside Chattanooga, Tennessee, intending never to come out. Years of amphetamine addiction had cost him nearly everything...
In 1989, Dr. Christoph Broelsch performed a groundbreaking surgery at the University of Chicago — the first successful living-donor liver transplant. He removed a portion...
When NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990, the world waited for its first images of deep space. What came back was devastating...
In 1959, a poet and professor named Pedro Bach-y-Rita suffered a devastating stroke that left him paralyzed on one side, unable to speak. Doctors offered...
Of all the organs in the human body, the liver holds a singular distinction: it is the only internal organ capable of regenerating itself. Surgeons...
In 1993, Johnny Cash was a man the music industry had discarded. Nashville had moved on. Columbia Records had dropped him. Then Mercury dropped him...
In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a principle that still guides orthopedic medicine today. Wolff's Law states that bone adapts to the stresses placed...
By 1993, Johnny Cash was a man the music industry had discarded. Nashville had moved on. His record label dropped him after decades together. Addiction...
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with the force of five hundred atomic bombs, flattening 230 square miles of old-growth forest in minutes....
In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that had puzzled him for decades: how do our cells...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean emerges from nineteen years in prison a hardened, bitter man. No inn will shelter him. No family will...