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The book launched him on a career that made him ... But it shows him also as a distinguished scientist, meeting Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley on equal terms. A stanch Presbyterian, he ...

Researchers from the University of Stavanger found that a bizarre 'retro' teaching method is helping to boost interest in ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

The Simons Foundation and publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux announce the launch of Quanta Books, a partnership imprint led by Thomas Lin, the founding editor of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Quanta ...