Alex Honnold revealed details of his payday for climbing Taipei 101. The pro climber just ascended the 1,667-foot skyscraper live for Netflix. He called his paycheck "embarrassing," comparing it to ...

Spiderman called in sick, so Alex Hannold scaled the Taipei 101 — all without ropes, safety nets or spidey webs. Taiwan's president congratulated Honnold on completing the challenge. An American ...

No matter where you live, extreme weather can hit your area and change your life. Whether it’s a hurricane, winter storm, flash flood, tornado, wildfire, or heat wave, disasters can damage or destroy ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we can easily forget that we live on a round planet. We’re so small in comparison to the Earth that ...

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

Brandon Riegg, the VP of nonfiction series and sports at Netflix, bills it as the streamer’s “latest global must-watch live event… Watching Alex Honnold free climb Taipei 101 will be an adrenaline ...

The geometric bob is sharp, architectural, and defined by clean angles—think precision lines and modernist design. In general, it works best on oval, square, and heart-shaped faces with straight or ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Dr. Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University, founder of Equal Opportunity Ventures and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Call it MAG: mutually assured gerrymandering. First ...

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