Does trying to calculate a tip without your smartphone calculator make you break out in a cold sweat? If you answered “yes,” you’re in good company. Even the most brilliant scientists and engineers ...

New world records in some sports are remarkably elusive, yet in others they seem to fall regularly, as Armand Duplantis's extraordinary pole vault recently demonstrated. Looking to records in other ...

Much has been written about the various attempts to create more Republican House districts through extreme gerrymandering. This column recently discussed a pending Supreme Court case that could strike ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Kuldeep Yadav's place in the Indian T20I side is not under threat, and neither was Junaid Siddique's while UAE scrambled to keep themselves alive in the Asia Cup. The very idea that these men, so ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet climatologist and mathematician Mikhail Budyko set out to investigate the potential future of a planet on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. He started by looking some 600 ...

Sept 10 (Reuters) - Video platform Vimeo, whose popularity surged during the pandemic, said on Wednesday it will be acquired by Italian app developer Bending Spoons for about $1.38 billion, a deal ...

Video platform Vimeo announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to be acquired by Bending Spoons, one of Europe’s largest mobile app developers, in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $1.38 ...

A man is dead after an apparent stabbing and beheading at a Dallas motel on Wednesday morning. Investigators said the suspect, later identified as 37-year-old Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, put the victim's ...

American high-school seniors’ scores on major math and reading tests fell to their lowest levels on record, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Education Department. Twelfth-graders’ ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. High school students hit historic lows in math and reading on national tests, continuing a decade-long decline ...