The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new ...

In children up until around the age of 7, it is common to reverse the letters b, d, q, p, and the numbers 9, 5, and 7, while ...

The Sun Microsystems logo is perhaps the best ambigram logo of all for its geometric perfection. The clever rotational ...

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Live updates and the latest news as the Senate sends PBS, NPR, foreign aid clawbacks to the House and senators consider Emil ...

Over thirty promising, young Utrecht researchers will receive a Veni grant of up to 320,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). 1 in 7 Venis went to Utrecht researchers this year.

A childhood construction toy has been transformed into a working 8-bit mechanical computer that can perform real math.

The mind-bending concept of time dilation results from a seemingly harmless assumption—that the speed of light is the same ...

Challenge your cognitive abilities with this perplexing optical illusion! A grid of seemingly random letters hides a clever ...