With the approval of the new Leibniz ScienceCampus “Multiscale Challenges: from Astrophysics to Climate Models,” the Leibniz Association is launching an ambitious initiative to bring together leading ...

“Why her?” the journalist Mark Oppenheimer writes toward the end of his first biography, “Judy Blume: A Life.” “What is it about Judy and her work that won her so many millions of fans?” Partly talent ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. "Her work shaped me — both as a young woman and as a writer — in ways that can’t be overstated," the actress says of the celebrated ...

On Page 76 of the 1959 Hibbing, Minnesota, high school yearbook, a certain member of the senior class is quoted as vowing “to join ‘Little Richard’” after graduation. That didn’t happen. Once this ...

Most historians treated calculus as an independent, near-simultaneous development by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Image: AI generated Newton’s calculus story began when Cambridge went ...

The latest recipients of the most prestigious research funding prize in Germany have been announced: today, the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) ...

Physicist Klaus Blaum, based at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, is driven by a passion for precision. His work focuses on making highly accurate measurements in atomic and ...

From the DFG's short profile of the awardees: Christian Doeller is receiving the Leibniz Prize for his work in the field of cognitive neuroscience and psychology, which has provided valuable insights ...

Francis Crick missed a crucial seminar in 1951, probably because he was seeing a lover. James Watson did go, failed to take notes and misremembered key details. As a result, their first model of DNA ...

In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...