Unbeknownst to them, the puzzle would help launch a profound branch of modern math about order among chaos and spark a ...

In January, I started reading a thick book about digging the Panama Canal. We were set to visit Panama at the end of that month, so I figured some historical backstory was in order. It’s now July, and ...

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Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer. By Kenneth Chang Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the ...

As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

A growing number of seniors are taking out reverse mortgages to access cash they can use for anything — from a luxury retirement vacation to basic life expenses. It's an appealing way of getting extra ...

When we drink alcohol, our liver breaks it down into acetate, which the body can then burn as fuel. A new Neuropsychopharmacology study has discovered that chronic alcohol use can alter how the brain ...

Landowners in Research Triangle Park will soon be able to apply to bring mixed-use communities to North America’s largest research and science park. The Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina ...

I recently started teaching a new student named Dan, and he reminds me of a lot of golfers I’ve seen over the years. He loves the game and plays as much as he can, but has been frustrated for years by ...

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Military commissaries stopped charging customers for single-use paper or plastic bags Wednesday, reversing a policy implemented just one month ago. In a short statement, the Defense Commissary Agency ...