Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

What happens to psychoanalysis when the individual mind disappears? Here's a critique of the concept of the "analytic third." ...

A French tradition since at least the 14th century, trompe l’oeil sweets are especially well suited to our social media age.

It was a rare sight on Athens’ skyline, and it didn’t last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in ...

A 62-page document written by billionaire Jared Isaacman outlines a sweeping, ambitious, and at times controversial plan for the space agency.

Do you find yourself longing for a home you can't quite name? The Welsh word "hiraeth" describes that exact feeling.

Archaeologists have confirmed that Aguada Fénix, the largest and oldest known Maya monument, was designed as a massive cosmogram representing the Maya conception of the universe. New excavations at ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.