Candidates to succeed Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Association have outlined their views on ...

Over centuries, mathematicians have amassed an array of symbols—from arrows and crosses to shapes derived from letters—to ...

The games in questions could be either Ludus Latrunculi or Doudecim Scripta, both of which were known board games played with bone pieces by Roman soldiers in the fifth century. Celikbas said both are ...

I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

Illuminated at night, the Kiewit Luminarium is a symbol of the revitalization of Omaha, Nebraska’s Missouri River waterfront.

Flowers die. That’s the first thing we know about them. They’re fragile, temporary, and gone before you’ve fully appreciated their beauty. And yet, they’ve been a symbol of love for centuries. We ...

Sacred geometry, a term that immediately evokes curiosity, refers to geometric forms and patterns that appear throughout ...

Bahata Ansumali (in pic), a software technologist turned researcher, was in town recently for the Kolkata Literary Meet.