The advent of next-generation sequencing has made possible genome analysis at previously unattainable depth. Roche, Illumina and Life Technologies, among others, have developed well-established ...

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

If you’re not sure how to wrap a present, there’s an easy hack you can try. The clever trick—wrap diagonally, not horizontally or vertically—is based in math. Basic geometric principles explain how it ...

Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...

Shelley Zalis: CEO, Founder, and “Chief Troublemaker” of The Female Quotient—is a trailblazing entrepreneur, three-time movement maker, and global advocate for building workplaces that work for ...

Learning English can be tough for you sometimes. Most of you may find it boring to study grammar or read long passages every day. So, it's normal to desire a fun way to learn English. Movies and TV ...

The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. Earth's seasons are caused by its axial tilt, not its distance from the sun. Following the winter solstice, daylight ...

An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...