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In animations that evoke the fog of memory, Susan returns to her childhood in Korea, speaking a language she no longer knows ...

More concerned with the action itself than with the theory behind it,’ Torres was relieved of his orders in 1965, after which ...

Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...

Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe ...

An inventor traces the evolution of a single engineering idea, from Michael Faraday’s first motors to levitating trains ...

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...