For decades, scientists have tried to turn the question of alien life from late-night speculation into something you can ...

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Cosmology is already a complicated field of study, so switching up the variables is extra rough.

Mathematics also features in a 1998 novella by Ted Chiang called Story of Your Life, which was adapted into the 2016 film ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

PROPERLY speaking, “The Virgin and the Gip-sy,” the posthumous book by D. H. Lawrence, is not a full-structure novel. It is a sketch, complete in form arid plot, but wanting in detail and substance; ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

Like the artist, the scientist is a lover of nature. Just as the artist is restricted only by his imagination and his facility with his chisel or brush, the scientist is restricted only by his ...