Loading...
200 illustrations
In the forests of British Columbia, ecologist Suzanne Simard spent decades studying what happens beneath the soil. What she found astonished the scientific world. Trees...
On December 23, 1972, a massive earthquake devastated Managua, Nicaragua, killing thousands and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. Roberto Clemente, the Pittsburgh Pirates' legendary right...
In 1991, a twenty-one-year-old Finnish student named Linus Torvalds wrote an operating system kernel in his Helsinki bedroom. He called it Linux. What he did...
In the early 1990s, Rich Mullins was one of the most successful artists in Christian music. His song "Awesome God" had become an anthem sung...
In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. A stroke had partially paralyzed him years earlier. Creditors circled. London audiences had...
When you scrape your knee and see that white, yellowish substance forming around the wound, you are looking at something remarkable. You are looking at...
In 1952, polio was the most feared disease in America. Parents kept children indoors all summer. Iron lungs lined hospital corridors. Then Dr. Jonas Salk...
In the closing pages of Charles Dickens' *A Tale of Two Cities*, the dissolute lawyer Sydney Carton walks through the streets of Paris on the...
In the 1990s, Rich Mullins wrote some of the most beloved songs in Christian music, including Awesome God, an anthem sung in churches around the...
In 1957, astrophysicist Fred Hoyle and his colleagues published a landmark paper demonstrating something remarkable: nearly every element essential for life was forged inside dying...
In 1989, a British computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee, working at a research lab in Switzerland, invented the World Wide Web. He created the protocols...
Inside every surge protector is a small component called a Metal-Oxide Varistor — an MOV. Most of the time, it does nothing. Electricity flows past...
In a bone marrow transplant — a procedure pioneered by Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, who spent decades refining it before winning the Nobel Prize in...
In 1989, a British computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN in Geneva. He created the protocols that...
Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs a blood transfusion. What makes this medical reality so remarkable is what it demands of the...
Every major website you visit — from banking portals to hospital systems — is protected by something most people never see: a reverse proxy. Companies...
In transplant medicine, when a living donor gives one of their kidneys to save another person's life, something remarkable happens to the kidney that remains....
On September 30, 1972, Roberto Clemente lined a double off the wall at Three Rivers Stadium — his 3,000th career hit. He was only the...
If you've ever plugged your computer into a surge protector, you've trusted a small, unassuming device with something valuable. Most of us forget it's even...
In 2012, Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that mature cells can be reprogrammed back into stem...
In May 1992, during the siege of Sarajevo, a mortar shell struck a bread line and killed twenty-two people. The next day, cellist Vedran Smailović...
In the 1990s, Rich Mullins wrote *Awesome God*, a worship anthem that swept through churches like wildfire. The royalties alone could have afforded him a...
In December 1954, Richard Herrick was dying of chronic kidney disease at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. His identical twin brother Ronald made a...
On New Year's Eve, 1972, Roberto Clemente boarded a cargo plane in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He wasn't heading to a celebration. He was heading...