This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. While the map is famous for its early depiction of the Americas, a new wave of academic ...

Looking at some iconic Roubaix machines from the past decades, including gems used by Eddy Merckx, Fabian Cancellara and ...

Have you ever wondered who is behind geometry's most fundamental truths? You guessed it: it is Euclid of Greece.

Debates over how geometry is understood and learned date back at least to the days of Plato, with more recent scholars ...

One of the greatest mysteries of modern physics, the "black hole information paradox," might have finally found an elegant ...

Every epoch in human history has had its equation of power. The variables of the 21st century are data, compute, and models.

Throughout history, humanity has always looked for a way to bridge the gap between our messy reality and the divine. Long ...

From the International Space Station, it looks unmistakably like a scar left by a meteorite: a series of concentric rocky ...

Fragments of decorated ostrich eggshells. (Texier et al., J. Archaeol. Sci., 2013) Ancient humans were surprisingly creative, structured, and geometrical in their thinking some 60,000 years ago, ...

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a 1,500-year-old monastic complex in the Nile Delta, including a fifth-century ...