How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...

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Grounded in research and cultivating inquiry, American medicine, at its best, is the envy of the world. Patients from around the globe—with the means to afford it—travel to centers of excellence like ...

Under house arrest in Egypt, one mathematician transformed how we examine the world. 500 years before the Scientific Revolution, the mathematician Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham spent hours in a dark room ...