When Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a centuries-old tradition shrouded in secrecy: the papal conclave. Two weeks later 133 ...

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If you've had two children of the same sex, you're more likely to have a third one of the same sex, according to a new study Getty A new study challenges the long-held belief that a baby’s sex is ...

While 630 young math prodigies were sitting in a conference room on Australia’s sunshine coast, readying their pencils for the International Math Olympiad, a potential rival was still en route from ...

Oct 1 (Reuters) - The Pentagon plans to impose strict nondisclosure agreements and random polygraph testing for scores of people in its headquarters, including many top officials, the Washington Post ...

Much has been written about the various attempts to create more Republican House districts through extreme gerrymandering. This column recently discussed a pending Supreme Court case that could strike ...

Marcus Ruelos and his dad Galan hoped to see something special when they went to the Seattle Mariners vs. Colorado Rockies game on Wednesday night, but they never thought they would be a part of the ...

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Judge Steven Merryday gave the president’s lawyers 28 days to refile the suit. A federal judge has tossed President Donald Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and Penguin ...

A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have incentivized the mass production of meaningless or flawed papers. The study ...

A Westdale Middle School math teacher was arrested Tuesday morning after a drug-sniffing dog alerted police to cocaine in a bag on her desk. Virginia Somers, 47, was booked into the parish prison on a ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet climatologist and mathematician Mikhail Budyko set out to investigate the potential future of a planet on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. He started by looking some 600 ...