This short trivia quiz tests your knowledge of fiction and nonfiction works that were made into popular films about space ...

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Marie Curie had an extraordinary life, but as Glenda Cooper finds out in this new biography by Dava Sobel, Curie also led the ...

An unorthodox researcher pursuing ‘the private lives of rats’ opened what seemed to be a new window on human nature.

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He got a good salary as he got a chance to become a scientist in a leading pharmaceutical company ... organizing health camps ...

Patchen Barss’s The Impossible Man is a warts-and-all portrait of Roger Penrose, his Nobel Prize-winning work and his fraught ...

Co-sponsored by the Brown Chair and the Community Literacies Collaboratory, this year's festival in Little Rock showcased three Pulitzer Prize winners: Toluse Olorunnipa, Isabel Wilkerson and Ilyon ...

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