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By the end of 1930, Austrian-born theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli was at the height of his achievements, yet an absolute emotional wrec...

When they met, Einstein wasn’t Einstein yet. He was just Albert Einstein, a kid, about 17, with a dark cloud of teenage angst and a violin....

On May 29, 1810, Katherine Fritsch, a sister in the Moravian Church, boarded a coach in Lititz, Pennsylvania, along with a group of her frie...

Political life is increasingly sectarian, unhinged from the reality and magnitude of policy disagreements.“Foundation of the American Govern...

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.New research finds that the subjective experience of time is linked to le...

While Jimmy Carter was president of the United States, his younger brother, Billy, a brewer, endorsed Billy Beer, which featured his signatu...

Joe Pettit is a person of contradictions. A lover of solitude who manages teams, an engineer who writes poetry and paints, a family man who...

Hiking the Franconia Ridge Loop is an intimidating proposition. The trail, in the heart of New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest, i...

The election of Joe Biden is the best thing to happen to conservation in the past four years. It won’t be easy to undo the damage done to en...

The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photogra...

In early 2018, officials at University College London were shocked to learn that meetings organized by “race scientists” and neo-Nazis, call...

In the early 1960s, during the space race, neither American nor Soviet scientists really knew where planets like Mars or Venus were—especial...

When you bite into an ear of fresh corn, you are eating something profoundly unnatural. A modern ear is a big, flavorful thing packed with 1...

In September, a writer for HBO’s Watchmen series, Cord Jefferson, was awarded an Emmy. I enjoyed the show’s first season, a sequel to arguab...

The ways in which this creature’s creators have successfully modeled him on human attributes can offer insights into how and why people deem...