There were hints that the world may be quantum long before the development of quantum mechanics in 1925 – could we have come up with this revolutionary theory hundreds or even thousands of years ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

When we think of modern innovations, we often picture digital devices, advanced medicine, or sleek engineering. But what if many of the ideas we call “modern” were already in use thousands of years ...

A New York father and NAACP leader is demanding his school district discontinue its new "Spartans" mascot, alleging the ...

Pi is part of Egyptian mythology Egyptians believed that the pyramids of Giza were like math marvels, built on the principles of pi. The fun fact about this pi connection? Well, imagine this: The ...

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A New York school district is facing a lawsuit from a former teacher and parent who says its new Spartans logo is a symbol of ...

William King Moss III, a father of two second-graders in the Brentwood Union Free School District on Long Island, filed a lawsuit last month claiming the Spartans moniker represents a symbol of "white ...

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Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no learning and no translation—making emojis akin to the earlist forms of writing.

"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens ... of Archaeoastronomy at the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano, told Space.com.