This video explores one of Leonhard Euler’s most elegant ideas, showing how factorials can be used to connect π, square roots, and one-half in a surprising and beautiful way. Through clear ...

Disapproval of the state of the economy is widespread today, despite many indicators improving since the start of the year. The reality is that most Americans’ financial situation deteriorated so much ...

Searching for an apartment online, applying for a loan, going through airport security, or looking up a question on a search engine – you might not think anything of these exchanges other than that ...

The collapse of talks about a UN plastics treaty is the wake-up call we didn’t need. It’s time to study what is going wrong and why. On 15 August in Geneva, Switzerland, a fifth round of negotiations ...

It's almost time for the annual We Energies Cookie Book distribution events. The Cookie Book, which got its start in 1928 as a way to promote electric appliances, features recipes shared by We ...

Imagine the impact of climate change is irreversible, and decades of flooding, famine, pandemics and war have upended life on earth. That world is explored in Ian McEwan's new novel, “What We Can Know ...

October 8 - With COP30 fast approaching in Brazil, governments and businesses must recognise that food systems belong at the top of the agenda. Production, processing, transport and waste across the ...

This is the first installment of a new column by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. It appears in our current print issue; subscribe to get a copy. In 1962, eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell received a series of ...

Over the course of his career, Ian McEwan has become known for a variety of memorable set pieces: events, random or spectacular or apparently banal, that seem to crystallize, or catalyze, his ...

Brian W. Stone does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

In June of this year in America, I offered the concept of cosmopolitanism as an important corrective to the nationalistic tendencies that are so prevalent in today’s political and social discourse.

Before cities, smartphones, or even written language, humans had one major survival tactic: each other. We lived in small, tight-knit groups where survival meant working together. And to do that, we ...