“MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY was a promising U.S. Navy officer headed to a new assignment on the brig Consort in 1839, when his stagecoach...

Humans often form causal links to make sense of the phenomena around them, but with misunderstandings. Without the slow and methodical...

“A new flu virus was discovered. Within weeks, public health agencies around the world feared a terrible pandemic was under way. Some...