Everyone, no matter their background, should have an equal chance to work in science – but there are huge systemic barriers.

The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Francisco Giants 10-2, reducing their magic number to clinch the division to 10, while the magic number for a wild-card ...

The Chicago Cubs enter this week with an eye on knocking their magic number down to zero to claim their first National League playoff berth in five years. The ...

In 1971, German mathematicians Schönhage and Strassen predicted a faster algorithm for multiplying large numbers, but it ...

Cell division is one of the most thoroughly studied processes in biology, yet many of its details remain mysterious. A century-old puzzle surrounding the "crown" of cell division—the kinetochore ...

On the same night Shohei Ohtani invented the 50/50 club and then kept going to 51/51, his former team mustered just one run and continued to wallow at the bottom of the American League West standings ...

Connections is one of the best puzzle games from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to ...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove. The latest figures ...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove. The latest ...

Understanding diffraction and dispersion is key to optical science, influencing technologies like spectroscopy, fiber optics, ...