We don’t mean to completely pooh-pooh all of the talk about the importance of the gerrymandering arms race that has broken out since Texas tried to lasso five more seats for the GOP. But we should ...

This maths puzzle has genuinely baffled quite a few people. Attempting to work it out might transport you back to memories of being trapped in a maths class at school, being picked on by your teacher, ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, connects quantum mechanics to infinitely intricate mathematical structures. Hofstadter was ...

Chants of "stop the boats" and "send them back" were countered by "refugees are welcome here" when another Saturday saw opposing groups of protesters take to the streets in Newcastle city centre. One ...

Chris Mooney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a CNN Climate contributor. He is currently a professor of practice in the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. The contiguous ...

Sanju Samson celebrated 10 years in international cricket on July 19, 2025, marking the anniversary of his debut against Zimbabwe in 2015. While acknowledging that statistics don't fully capture his ...

The Aadhaar PVC cards, which are a more durable, wallet-sized version of the Aadhaar, are now supported by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). These cards can be ordered by you and ...

Republicans in Congress are reviving a controversial push to alter a key set of census numbers that are used to determine how presidents and members of the U.S. House of Representatives are elected.

A prime dividing a composite Fermat number is called a Fermat prime divisor. Such a prime p must be congruent to 1 modulo 4, and so, by the Fermat–Girard theorem, there exists integers R and S such ...

The Trump administration’s surprise federal funding freeze met widespread condemnation in Illinois, as state leaders scrambled to fight the spending pause that spurred chaos and confusion prior to ...

Among voters without college degrees, Kamala Harris fared worse than Joe Biden four years ago. That’s a big problem for Democrats. And it has become more of a liability for the party as it struggles ...