If ever you needed an answer to get your head in a spin then this is the one.

Recently, when we were writing our book Numericon, we came across what has now become one of our very favourite numbers: Graham's number. One of the reasons we love it is that this number is big. Actually, that's an understatement. Graham's number is mind…

How a rogue Romanian economist escaped poverty, wrote an algorithm, and gamed more than a dozen lotteries around the world.

A British band has worked with sound therapists to create a tune described by scientists as the "most relaxing song ever".

We’ve all seen this situation: an exquisite, drop-dead gorgeous woman walking hand in hand with a dude who is much, much less attractive than she is...right?

Industry vet Tom Ryan shares the stories behind his career-defining innovations, including McGriddles and Meat Lover's Pizza.

According to the FDA, the one test that authenticates honey is the presence of pollen. If the liquid gold doesn't contain pollen, it isn't honey. Alarmingly, a recent study found that 76% of grocery store "honey" had no pollen in it!

Ever step on a rusty nail? It was, in all likelihood, rapidly followed by your parents dragging you to the doctor’s office for a painful (but safe!) tetanus shot. The memory of my first tetanus shot

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 was divided, one half awarded to Antoine Henri Becquerel "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity", the other half jointly to Pierre Curie and Marie Curie,…

And they say TV will rot your brain.

Sergei Anatolievich Preminin (Russian: Сергей Анатольевич Преминин, 18 October 1965 – 3 October 1986) was a Soviet Russian sailor who, after an explosion aboard nuclear submarine K-219, prevented an impending nuclear meltdown by manually forcing damaged control…

Mary had a little lamb, the childhood nursery rhyme familiar to all, tells the story of a real Mary, a real lamb, and it really did follow her to school one day around 1816. Mary was Mary Sawyer, born in 1806, and she remembered her lamb all her life. The…

The 28 pages refers to the final section of the December 2002 report of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001, conducted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the…

He was 12 years old. He was a slave. He’d had no schooling. He was too young, too unlettered, too un-European; he couldn’t have done this on his own. That’s what people said. Edmond (he had no last name—slaves weren’t allowed them) had just solved a botanical…

The arsenic-laden pages of "Shadows from the Walls of Death" should not be touched without gloves.

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It's no secret that Space Mountain in Disneyland is an icon. But, today we're sharing the top 10 secrets of Space Mountain. “You are good for launch in T-minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… liftoff!" Space Mountain in ...

When preparing to swing at the tee, you want to golf ball to go just as far as you want it in exactly the right direction you want it to go. That's where the dimples come in. Learn why golf balls have dimples and where they came from.

At SXSW, Pete Docter and others remember the early days of computer animation

Those who knew Mike Ilitch, the Little Caesars founder and Detroit Tigers owner who died last Friday, have spent the past few days fondly remembering his impact on friends, on Detroit residents, and on the sports community.