Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games column in Scientific American fascinated and mystified readers for decades—and his legacy ...

Famous people who die at age 27, such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Amy Winehouse, get even more famous because of the ...

Poke a pencil, chopstick or wooden skewer vertically into the center of the circular base from below. Make sure that the ...

Humanity is lucky to reside on a planet circling a star with plentiful radiation, illuminating the world around us in ...

Feltman: So I understand that you curated an exhibit on a really fascinating topic at the intersection of history, art, science ... kinds of pursuits—more scientific pursuits, I would say ...

Thousands of homes in Navajo and other tribal lands don’t have access to electricity. A $200-million federal funding effort ...

This perception, in which lines in two-dimensional space appear to meet at a point called the vanishing point, is often used in art to portray relative distances. The key is that the two ...

The woman had received no prenatal care and no medical attention at delivery—the kind of situation that has made maternal mortality rates for Native American women in rural areas twice as high ...

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Far beneath the lush landscape of southern China, a sprawling subterranean laboratory aims to be the world's first to crack a deep scientific ... (Juno), a state-of-the-art facility for studying ...

At the time, about 11% of American families had just one kid ... Will more solo kids lead to a world run by spoiled brats, ...