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In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows ...

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Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe ...

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An inventor traces the evolution of a single engineering idea, from Michael Faraday’s first motors to levitating trains ...

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...

Take a trip to Luna Parc, New Jersey, a former hunting lodge, now part living museum, part work of art, and wholly individual ...

is professor and chair of global international relations at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is the founding director of the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) and ...

Noah never reckoned with trinomials. Modern Creationists, grasping for footholds in the post-Darwinian world, maintain that Noah took 1,398 kinds of animal aboard his Ark, as the floodwaters gathered ...