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Three authors have been awarded $10,000 prizes for blending scientific research with literary grace. The National Book ...

For generations, a misidentified medieval manuscript was hidden in a 474-year-old English boarding school’s library. After a ...

A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be ...

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A pair of legislative bills argue that the law gives school districts too much discretion over school-library book bands, a ...

In 2025, Nature searched for the world’s happiest PhD students, anticipating that they might be in Finland. The Nordic nation of long winters and, apparently, the most heavy-metal bands per capita ...

People who donate books and records in-store on Tuesdays and Wednesdays can exchange the items for pickles. Sweet Pickle ...

Here in the northern hemisphere, January always feels like the longest, drabbest month of the year, so how lucky we are to have a host of new science books to enliven our days. This month, we can ...

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A teacher's capability to improve students' scientific understanding is influenced by the school and district in which they work, the community in which the school is located, and the larger ...

Isaac Newton confessed that he had no idea what gravity was. The 17th century English polymath knew what it did, and he described it with a universal law of gravitation. But where the law came from, ...