“May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord let his face shine on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord uncover his face to you and bring you peace”. Pope Leo opened the homily at his first ...

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Craig Scott survived the Columbine tragedy, but his sister Rachel did not. Five years later, he discovered a powerful message she had left behind - one that would change his life forever. This video ...

Journal Editorial Report: New Yorkers will define the Democratic Party's future. Photo: Hiroko Masuike/AFP/Getty Images/Al Bello/Getty Images On Tuesday, unless the opinion polls are more wrong than ...

From the earliest days, mathematics has typically received a hallowed treatment from those who have studied it. Plato, who studied a special set of five three-dimensional shapes now known as the ...

During the August 18, 1868 total solar eclipse, both Pierre Jules César Janssen and J. Norman Lockyer independently observed a novel spectral line emanating from the Sun. Lockyer attributed this ...

Last winter, at a meeting in the Finnish wilderness high above the Arctic Circle, a group of mathematicians gathered to contemplate the fate of a mathematical universe. It was minus 20 degrees Celsius ...

Protest group No Azure for Apartheid has accused the company of censorship and retaliation. Microsoft employees discovered that company emails containing words like “Palestine” and “Gaza” were being ...