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Live Science spoke with author Thomas Levenson about his new book on the history of germ theory.

The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo ...

Sweet salads are back — not with irony, but with curiosity. Among them, gelatin salads are having a particular moment. Molly ...

Perhaps the best known of all comets is Halley, correctly pronounced so that it rhymes with rally, not daily. It is named after the 17th-18th century astronomer Edmond Halley. This ...

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A facsimile of the 17th-century Dutch documents that Charles Gehring spent 50 years translating, showing the condition of ancient records damaged by floods, in battles, in leaky ship holds and ...

who used to paint alongside Caravaggio and lived in Naples at the beginning of the 17th century. In fact, a 1607 letter addressed to the Duke of Mantua from a Flemish painter visiting Italy noted that ...

However, in 2022, before Fontaine and his research team were able to draw any conclusions, the manuscript was sold at an ...

In addition to iconic images of 17th century European witches chanting around a bubbling cauldron and accounts of mass burnings at the stake, modern-day stories have instilled the idea that eye of ...