Perhaps no other scientist has attracted more biographers than Charles Darwin. And deservedly so. No other scientist has had a more profound effect on how we understand ourselves and our place in nature.
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Annie and Charles Darwin
Helicodiceros muscivorus, or dead-horse arum • Photo by emmapatsie (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Hooray for plant sex
Panegyric. There’s a word that’s not used much anymore. Elaborate public praise. A formal composition intended as a compliment.
Photo by Sangharsh Lohakare on Unsplash
The discovery is the thing
Which of the following works would you choose to be lost, if only three could be saved: Michelangelo’s Pieta, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, or Einstein’s 1905 paper on relativity.
Detail of a Hubble Space Telescope mosaic image of the Crab Nebula • NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)
Appreciating our bizarre universe
On the evening of January 4 [2003], Saturn passed in front of the Crab Nebula.
“Galileo Facing the Roman Inquisition” by Cristiano Banti (1857)
We wish he had been more heroic
On the evening of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei, citizen of Florence and mathematician of the University of Padua, turned his telescope to the planet Jupiter. He saw the planet as a round disk against a background of three tiny stars, all in a row.