Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know this—that each successive number is the sum of the two numbers that came ...

Tanks are built to survive explosions—but they’re no match for a weapon that uses geometry to create a hypersonic jet of molten metal. From the invention of the shaped charge to why cardboard and ...

In back-to-back years, we have called the Heisman winners -- Jayden Daniels and Travis Hunter -- at greater than +1000 odds. There are certain thresholds that each player needs to hit in order to be ...

Marriage is supposed to be about uniting not just a couple, but their families (barring the obvious exceptions, like when the in-laws are monsters). But what are the limits, if any, of this loyalty?

In the 1990s, Romanian-Australian economist Stefan Mandel and his small team entered the lottery and won. Over and over and over again. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or ...

Government plans to make inheritance tax due on pensions, plus other changes to IHT rules, have seen a leap in people enquiring about the use of trusts to protect their wealth. So what are trusts, and ...

DARPA sees AI as accelerating advancements in "pure math," potentially benefiting practical applications like fluid dynamics technologies. Credit: Creative Commons The U.S. Defense Advanced Research ...

A little stress can motivate, but teachers increasingly report their students’ fears over math interfere with their learning. In a nationally representative survey conducted this spring, nearly all ...

Editor’s note: We’ve updated this story with the phrase “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” NASA’s most recent term for unidentified aerial phenomena. When NASA asked Boston University space physicist ...

Dear Eric: In the letter from “Frustrated Sister-in-Law”, the writer wanted to know what to do with her brother-in-law constantly asking for her share of the inheritance left to her by her father.