Good afternoon from Los Angeles, and thanks to those of you who came to the podcast business summit this past week. My colleague Ashley Carman coordinated a great afternoon of programming in ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

The famously triangular tower gets a new lease on life, but don’t expect cookie-cutter layouts. The famously triangular tower gets a new lease on life, but don’t expect cookie-cutter layouts. The ...

After relying on “neutral, almost ghostly clothes” for the past few seasons, Sally Singer, a veteran fashion editor and president of talent agency Art + Commerce, has begun mixing emphatic patterns.

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

The flutter of a kick inside the womb may mean more than just a healthy, active baby—it could be laying the foundation for a deeper emotional bond between mother and child. A new study led by ...

For decades, real-estate reality television has mined the drama of luxury homes, quick-flip makeovers and high-end staging. And, of course, catty broker drama. But the engine that powers downtown ...

Travel | Updated: September 8, 2025 | Originally Published: December 15, 2023 No passport is needed for this virtual tour of beautiful buildings around the world Almost like an arrow, the somewhat ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately ...

My Dad Was Gay — But Married To My Mom For 64 Years. As She Died, I Overheard Something I Can't Forget. Cruise passengers alarmed when glass panel breaks off Icon of the Seas slide Death of NYPD ...