Lightning has long fascinated people, motivating them to create myths about its origin and inspiring legendary experiments with electricity.

Epidemic disease has long fascinated historians, and its study has proved to be only too relevant to the present day.

The idea that collisions with extraterrestrial objects have shaped the history of Earth has long fascinated scientists and other theorists.

As a token of your love, please bring your father's journals, for his work has long fascinated me.

Antimatter has long fascinated researchers and science fiction writers because it is so rare and so strange.

This book explores from a scientific standpoint a subject that has long fascinated fiction writers: time travel.

The symmetry and isomerism of allenes has long fascinated organic chemists.

Marcel Proust's flood of memory when he ate the madeleine has long fascinated readers of literature and science.

The investigators then moved on to the question that has long fascinated thousands of Soviet citizens without access to party privileges.

The resistance of such elements as gold and platinum to chemical attack - their "nobility" - is a quality that has long fascinated chemists.