In geometry, there are surfaces that do without an inside or outside—and some need at least four dimensions to exist ...

The Mortal Thor #5 is a flawless comic, a perfectly-paced, compelling plot buoyed by some gorgeous art and sumptuous writing.

Soft robotic systems are evolving toward life-like motion, but precise shape-morphing and adaptive grasping remain difficult. This study presents a ...

A remarkable retrospective shows how Asawa’s art practice emerged from the broken rhythms of daily life, overlapping with ...

The film-maker returns to the swashbuckling, maximalist production values that made him, with features such as Léon: The ...

Almost two decades ago, while I was trying to find my footing as a writer — roving between the provinces of prose and poetry — I picked up “The Poetry Home Repair Manual” by Ted Kooser, the Pulitzer ...

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, France’s first corporate foundation dedicated to promoting contemporary art, is ...

A scale drawing of a bridge has the same shape as the real bridge that it represents but a different size. Scale drawings close scale drawingAn accurate drawing, or model, of a representation of a ...

When someone proclaims "This is the best pub in the world" during an evening out, it's typically met with skepticism - but an official ranking has now identified the ultimate drinking spots across the ...

Editor’s Note: Published in 1956, this article proved so popular that it served as the inspiration for Martin Gardner’s legendary Scientific American column Mathematical Games. Read more in our ...

Back in the Stone Age, before we were all completely plugged in and focused on our gadgets at all times (you know, like, 2002), people would get ... bored. Of course, everyone still finds themselves ...

Valcamonica, situated in the Lombardy plain, has one of the world's greatest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs – more than 140,000 symbols and figures carved in the rock over a period of 8,000 ...