On the morning of Nov. 1, 1755, an earthquake of 8.5 magnitude was felt across the Atlantic—from Scotland to Brazil—but Portugal bore the worst of it. For six catastrophic minutes Lisbon shook. The ...

“The present is big with the future,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz once said, and he would know. The 17th-century philosopher and mathematician developed the binary number system that is still being used ...

Invasive fungal infections are increasing worldwide, particularly in immunocompromised individuals. At the same time, fungal infections are increasingly observed as co-infections with bacteria and ...

While Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s work has influenced centuries of technological innovation, his own influences included Chinese philosophy and divination manuals recorded as early as 1000 BC. On ...

Among his many achievements, Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) invented differential calculus independently of Isaac Newton; much of the notation and vocabulary used today comes from Leibniz, who ...

And the Google Doodle goes to… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz! I admit it: I had never heard of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz until this morning when Google decided to provide the late (obviously) 17th century ...

On November 14, 1716, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died. The universal genius of the early enlightenment not only passed on a wealth of knowledge, but left imprint on our scientific way of thinking. When ...