She was the last of four sisters who became a Depression-era sensation, performing onstage. Offstage, they endured abuse and were studied for their schizophrenia.

Catholic intellectuals of the time were already engaging with evolutionary theory in a more open-minded way. That willingness ...

But Muybridge also took impressive landscapes of Alaska and Yosemite National Park, invented cutting-edge photography techniques used in Hollywood blockbusters, and quite literally got away with ...

It is this Kasparov vs Deep Blue battle — famously called ‘The Brain’s Last Stand’ by a magazine on its cover back in 1997 — ...