The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

“We’re using the term ‘steam world,’” says astronomer Ryan MacDonald at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. GJ 9827d was discovered in 2017 orbiting a star about 100 light-years ...

Opened in 1965 as Scarborough College, the campus now known as University of Toronto Scarborough, or UTSC, quickly grew to become a beacon of modernity in what was then a rural pocket on the ...

Carissa Jane Smith, a 30-year-old former substitute teacher from Missouri, is facing serious charges including statutory rape, sodomy, and sexual trafficking. Smith is accused of engaging in ...

The world's largest known prime number has been discovered, but we can't show it because it's so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text. Called M136279841, it comes to ...

according to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife map, which covers late September and most of October. The state’s known wolf population now stands at 14: seven survivors among the 10 adults ...

The attack occurred on the same day that Israel bombed sites in the Syrian capital that the Israeli military said were affiliated with a militant group. At least 15 people were killed, Syrian stat ...

The largest known prime number has been discovered by an amateur researcher and former Nvidia employee. The new number is 2 136,279,841 – 1, which beats the previous title holder (2 82,589,933 ...

After a six-year drought, we now have a new largest known prime number, thanks to an amateur mathematics sleuth who deployed an army of graphics processing units (GPUs) to crunch through the ...