The symbols, discovered on 40,000-year-old artifacts in caves in southwest Germany, may have been a precursor to the first written language ...

We can tie knots in three dimensions because one-dimensional ropes “catch on each other”. This is why a long rope wound around itself, if done right, won’t come apart. We trust knots with our lives ...

Taylor Ward was once thrown off-guard when the Angels changed his position. Being traded to the Orioles was much easier for him to accept.

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

Einstein–Rosen bridges may reflect a two-directional structure of time that preserves information and hints at a pre–Big Bang universe.

NASA will return its moon rocket to the hangar for more repairs before astronauts strap in 6 planets will parade across the ...

An excerpt from ‘India Through Iconic Maps,’ by Deepti Anand, Sanghamitra Chatterjee, and contributing author Juhi Valia.

In our three-dimensional space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

For us, nonlinear time finds natural expression in a metaphor: the koru, or unfolding fern frond. Researcher Paula Toko King ...

Fans of the NHL may notice a different when tuning in to Olympic hockey. Here is more on why Italy's hockey rink is smaller ...