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Science has never been more powerful. We’ve mapped the human genome, landed robots on Mars, and photographed black holes 55 million light-years away. And yet, for all of that staggering progress, the ...

When frozen ground known as permafrost degrades, it can fail catastrophically. That could spell serious trouble for the whole ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

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Foreword / Dame Gillian Beer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett -- Part I. Strange plants : new frontiers in the natural world. 1. Victorian orchids and the forms ...