On our Best Fiction of 2025 list, Emma Pattee imagines Portland’s worst Earthquake in her debut novel Tilt ...

Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks ...

The British author wrote six novels, but it's her second published book that has resonated the most in the 250 years since ...

A researcher at the Department of Physics at Tohoku University has uncovered a surprising quantum phenomenon hidden inside ...

James Marshall’s “George and Martha” books are witty and complex in their depictions of transformative friendship.

The notebooks of Albert Camus, the French philosopher and novelist, have been collected in a single volume for the first time.

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

Superman's first appearance was in "Action Comics" No. 1, published in 1938. A copy of that comic graded 8.5 was most recently sold in April 2024 by Heritage Auctions for a then-record $6 million.

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Quantum physics can seem like a maze of strange ideas and confusing math, but the right book can make it all click. Whether you’re just starting out or you’ve been curious for years, there are plenty ...

GIBSON CITY — Several classic board games purchased for the Moyer District Library’s summer reading program are now a permanent feature at the Gibson City library. “Visit anytime and play Scrabble, ...