Bach composed best by hewing to a strict format. From art to business, constraints can unleash rather than stifle creativity.

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On May 11, 1896, Emperor Nicholas II approved the foundation of the first engineering university in the Asian part of the ...

Learning while sleeping had long been relegated to the realm of quackery, but new studies suggest that we may be able to problem-solve and practice skills in our dreams.

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According to ancient Greek texts, this was a land of eternal spring, inhabited by a race of giants who lived for a thousand years without disease or war. They called it Hyperborea, a realm existing ...

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To supercharge agents' ability to make scientific discoveries, DARPA is looking to improve cross-bot collaboration by ...

On 17 February 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev jotted down the symbols for the chemical elements, putting them in order according to their atomic weights and inventing the periodic table. He ...

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The first version of Mendeleev’s periodic table, published in 1869, was reportedly completed in just one day. Historians have pieced together what happened during that day. On the morning of February ...

I went to my rest a sober man, content with the stable progression of elements I found to be more reliable than any prayer. Sleep came easily. I went deep, then deeper, until in a single instant I ...