Say goodbye to stable orbits and knotted shoelaces.

The contest between gravity and quantum physics takes a new turn.

The surprising power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

Warriors among the Kwara’ae, a collection of tribal communities indigenous to the Solomon Islands, sacrificed pigs before battle. The tradition granted the combatants, so the belief went, aid from heroic ancestral spirits—like the mighty A’orama, a fierce fighter in Kwara’ae folklore. For every man who prepared to shed blood, a hog met its end.1 Any […]

Vitalism in the age of modern science.

From atoms to brains, bigger isn’t always better.