A new equation calculates how many fragments of each size will be produced when an object breaks. The principle could help ...

With Thanksgiving now past, parents are turning their attention to Christmas shopping.

There’s a long way to go, but Philippe Clement is a seriously good coach. Ben Lee analyses a long-overdue Carrow Road Championship win for Norwich City against QPR. Ben is a City season ticket holder ...

Taste is evolving faster than tradition because digital incentives reward speed and novelty. But evolution is not destiny; it ...

Most ears of corn have an even number of rows because their kernels develop in pairs from the start. Food scientists say that ...

A 1,300-year-old Mayan altar at Copan reveals new interpretations suggesting that its carved hands conceal four dates from the calendar.

A study links maternal stress hormones in late pregnancy to the timing of baby teeth eruption, highlighting prenatal factors in early childhood development.

Jean-Charles Pelland's work has been made possible by financial support from the ‘QUANTA: Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification’ project, which has received funding from the European ...

With atomic stenciling, researchers have made a variety of patterned patchy nanoparticles with new shapes and properties. Illustration by Maayan Harel. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Inspired by an artist’s ...

The Sleep Sprinter, the 3 a.m. Doomscroller, the Human Snooze Button — we’re all familiar with these archetypes of sleep deprivation. You probably already know that inadequate sleep can raise your ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...