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Anson Rabinbach, European historian and ‘luminous spirit,’ dies at 79
Rabinbach joined Princeton’s faculty in 1996 and transferred to emeritus status in 2019. He served as director of the ...
Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...
Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted
Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...