Rachel Feltman: When Tom Crawford climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and stood 5,895 meters [about 19,341 feet] above sea level, he was astounded by the natural beauty of the view. Who wouldn’t be? But unlike ...

Mathematics communicator and drag queen Kyne will help you discover the beauty and power of math in this miniseries.

In the U.S. in the early 1960s the distributor of a thalidomide drug was impatient to get it on the market. But FDA medical ...

Some researchers dream of solving all mysteries with a common method—but a mathematical paradox may keep such solutions out ...

Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

A long-awaited calculation of the W boson’s mass agrees with theory, contradicting a previous anomaly that had raised the ...

In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser.” But this use distorts its history and ...

Math’s “best-choice problem” could help humans become better decision-makers, at everything from choosing the best job ...

Brooke Scelza is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles’s department of anthropology. She is co-director of the Kunene Rural Health and Demography Project, where she studies ...