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When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once recalled a friend, an artist, who would say ...

If you ever watched an old movie, you’ll see behavior that to our minds seems utterly bizarre. For example, you may see in an old war movie a medic offering a soldier a cigarette right before he goes ...

Despite mapping the human genome, discovering gravitational waves, and sending rovers to Mars, science still faces profound mysteries that would make even Einstein scratch his head. These aren’t just ...

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If you were to travel to the early 1800s and strike up a conversation with a European scientist about climate, they would begin by asking why you hadn’t read your Aristotle. First sketched by the ...

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Back in 1978, Carl Sagan included a time line of scientific progress in his book Cosmos, showing that nothing at all happened between a.d. 415 and a.d. 1543. This barren period, he implied, was caused ...