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

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 ...

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

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

Unlike Roman, Maya or Iñupiaq numerals, this isn’t a total reimagining of numbers. Instead, it’s an uncanny parallel universe. Any number without zeros retains its old appearance (1,776 is still 1,776 ...

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 ...

Recent letters by John Gallup (Herald, Jan. 17) and Ian Root (Herald, Jan. 17), got me to thinking, and wondering why the American flag is so prominently displayed in so many U.S. churches. While ...

An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google's premiere AI research lab, has surpassed the average gold medalist in ...

Dr Anthony P Stone Publisher: Pippa Rann Price: Rs 499/- Astrology, a science with deep historical roots, continues to ...

Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — the national bird of the United ...

While market-working kids in India excel at mental calculations, they struggle with textbook math — while schoolchildren fail ...

WHO WANTS OUR CRIMINALS?: “Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that El Salvador has offered to accept deportees of ...