Using a computer powered by an off-the-shelf Intel Core i5-6600 processor, a FedEx employee from Tennessee has…
Australian scientists have managed to crack the code of a mysterious 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing a…
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Until recently, there were just 14 known convex pentagons (nonregular, five-sided shapes with outward-pointing angles)…
Here’s a fantastic exercise in thinking about thinking: The Upshot at the NYT is hosting an interactive puzzle that…
A study of new parents out of Germany makes the claim that having a baby is more hazardous to mental well-being than…
This week’s puzzle is not about gravity, though you’d be excused for suspecting as much. After all, when most people…
There’s a saying that there’s nothing like going to prison to turn you into a criminal. But now, a new study offers…
There is a lie running through your cookbooks. No, it’s not that you can substitute crackers for apples in your pie and…
The following “opportunity” appears in a survey posted on a University of Maryland domain. We don’t know what class…
After dividing 1 by 999-quattuordecillion (a number that’s 48 integers long), you get the Fibonacci sequence presented…
I’ve come to believe that mathematics, as an investigative science, as a practical discipline and as a creative art,…
Most people will probably remember the times tables from primary school quizzes. There might be patterns in some of…
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