Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Votes are being counted in the 2024 U.S. presidential election and some are looking to past races to get a sense of how the race could play out. The 2016 election was the first general election that ...

As an evening storm lights up the sky near Wood River, Nebraska, about 413,000 sandhill cranes arrive to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. This photo was originally published in "What Happens ...

Jim Simons, the billionaire investor, mathematician and philanthropist, died on Friday in New York City, according to his foundation, the Simons Foundation. Simons was 86 years old. Simons, the ...

Microsoft will officially end support for specific versions of Office. The news comes from Mariana Prudencio, Microsoft’s senior product marketing manager, who made the announcement via a blog post.

In the early 1970s mathematician Donald Knuth spent a sabbatical with his wife in Norway. The time was meant to be spent relaxing. Yet one night he woke up his partner in a state of agitation. He ...

Glenn Youngkin: “In 2016, Democrats suggested that the election was stolen.” Here's why: Gov. Glenn Youngkin recently gave his blessings to an "Election Integrity Unit" established by Attorney General ...

Many prominent Democrats say Donald Trump's win in the 2016 presidential election was tainted. But their complaints don't align with Republican claims that the 2020 election, won by Joe Biden, was ...

In this talk, leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Tony Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, using them to build a picture of how the ...

Last month, Tokyo handed over the Olympic flame to Paris after the culmination of the rearranged 2020 Olympics. Watching proceedings were people in Rio – which hosted the Games in 2016 – who are still ...

Five years after a saga that forced Ryan Lochte to leave the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, charges filed in a Rio court alleging the U.S. swimmer filed a false police report have been dismissed, the ...