Émile Zola, the French novelist, once quipped: “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” The very same can be said about geniuses, and, in fact, it should be said ...

As humans go, Albert Einstein was pretty smart. Using nothing but “thought experiments,” he figured out the fabric of the universe (special and general relativity and spacetime), the whole energy is ...

Across cultures and eras, human remains have held powerful spiritual and symbolic significance. The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying a king’s body ensured his ascent to the gods. The ...