Tales of sea serpents have haunted seafarers for centuries, and Scottish researcher Adrian Shine offers a naturalist's view on some of history's most famous cases.

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Science history is filled with brilliant minds whose contributions have gone largely unrecognized or deliberately overlooked.

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Japanese researchers uncovered a universal rule describing why life’s growth slows despite abundant nutrients. Their “global ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.