Mathematics often feels straightforward, yet some results challenge the way people instinctively think about numbers. Certain paradoxes and probability problems produce answers that seem impossible at ...

Maria Goeppert Mayer is remembered as one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. She was born in Germany ...

What will become of the most famous symbol of the fleet, when it is the simplest to attack? The imminent retirement of USS Nimitz can be said to have captured service life management. When it is put ...

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Everything depends on what people and their government do,” Somerville writes, not once, not twice, but (if I count correctly) seven times.

Calder Casino regularly hosts live music acts and DJs in its lounge areas, turning the space from a simple casino floor into something closer to a nightlife destination. The entertainment calendar ...

Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy. Glyn Williams investigates the standards he set in maritime exploration. The three major voyages of ...

In early February of 1943, Gene Grabeel walks toward a corner of a large, crowded room inside Arlington Hall near Washington, D.C. Around her, clutches of people huddle over tables and quietly rifle ...

This coastal Connecticut treasure nestled along the southeastern shoreline delivers the kind of instant enchantment that ...

Explore how early humans tracked seasons using sun shadows, stars like the Pleiades, plant blooms, and animal behaviors before modern calendars.

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

Southwest Baltimore sits in the heart of the city’s “Black Butterfly,” where history, access, and lived environment continue to shape health outcomes in visible—and preventable—ways. In this community ...