The attempt to impose a modern superstructure on a crumbling infrastructure is not peculiar to the Railways alone, writes ...

Simon de Pury reflects on a no-photo encounter at the Prado and asks whether photography deepens or diminishes our experience ...

There are few things more pleasing to your average mathematician than when a result surprises you. Take e, for example – a ...

The 2-day conference could have been held for a fraction of the cost — perhaps for Rs7 million instead of Rs703 million. What ...

Two extraordinary things happened in Downham Market at the general election last year. One is that Liz Truss lost the seat of South West Norfolk, the first former prime minister to be ousted since ...

For more than a decade, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft traced Saturn’s rings and moons, returning some of the most detailed ...

Tucked away in the quaint borough of North Wales, Pennsylvania lies a secondhand paradise that will have your inner bargain hunter doing cartwheels – Sweet Repeats Thrift Store, where shopping feels ...

What are we to call the political project that emerges from the drama directed by Kaczyński? Maciej Gdula calls it “new authoritarianism”. It is “new” because, contrary to traditional dictatorships, ...

Hidden Fibonacci numbers, a new shape and the search for a grand unified theory of mathematics are among our choices for most ...

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Here’s how Ramanujan Maths Park in Andhra Pradesh is transforming National Mathematics Day with hands-on exhibits, models, ...