This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

More than 20 million barrels of oil and LNG per day normally transit the Strait of Hormuz. Here’s why replacing that supply ...

The ongoing shortage of commercial LPG cylinders in India, caused by energy supply disruptions from the Gulf, is impacting ...

Threading the halls with Robert Schneider between classes is not a linear experience. Neither is conversation. Waysides, detours, and sidetracks abound, fruitful territory for the musician turned ...

Chinese mathematician Wei Dongyi, a two-time IMO gold medalist who once turned down Harvard, is also known for his frugal lifestyle, reportedly spending less than 300 yuan (US$44) a month in Beijing.

By Amanda Gonzalez You don’t build a secure election system overnight. You build it over years — layer by layer — reinforcing ...

Dr. Clayton is a mathematician. Candidates for quantitative jobs — like those on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley — are sometimes asked offbeat questions such as: How many Ping-Pong balls fit in a 747 ...

“When you’re a Jew growing up in Brooklyn, they don’t name you Isaiah,” he said about changing his name from Irwin. Isaiah Zagar, the famed Jewish mosaic artist whose shimmering, kaleidoscopic ...

PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia-based mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar, known for creating mirrored dreamscapes on buildings across the city, has died, according to a nonprofit art center he created. Zagar died ...

Hershey's (HSY) iconic Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup is at the center of a controversy after Brad Reese, grandson of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup inventor H.B. Reese, publicly accused the company of quietly ...

Temperatures will be well above average on Sunday. DUBAI – An Indian teacher and activist known for creating hundreds of learning centers and painting educational murals across the walls of slums won ...