Why do some melodies feel instantly right, balanced, memorable and satisfying, even if you have never heard them before? New research from the University of Waterloo suggests that more than creativity ...

Quantum computer research is advancing at a rapid pace. Today's devices, however, still have significant limitations: For example, the length of a quantum computation is severely limited—that is, the ...

For decades, cobalt has served as a benchmark ferromagnet. Its crystal structure and magnetic properties have been extensively documented. However, the new findings show that cobalt hosts a rich ...

The Dugan House on St. Philip Street was built in the 1890s in what's been labeled the Shingle Style, 'a texture-rich surface treatment consisting of wood shake shingles placed in a woven pattern ...

The Earth is full of wonders. Mountains, deserts, forests. Cities, monuments, artificial islands. But some things are so massive or uniquely designed .

After October 7, Israel is not only defending borders. It is defending moral gravity. Trauma compresses time. It demands immediate closure. It seeks emotional symmetry: you hurt us, we erase you. But ...

If two people pick alternate slices from a pizza that has been cut unevenly from an off-centre point, common sense suggests ...

Time feels steady and familiar in daily life, but at the quantum level it becomes slippery. That puzzle now has a fresh twist thanks to new research led by physicists at École Polytechnique Fédérale ...

Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden clump of dark ...

As authoritarianism sweeps the globe, Geoffrey Robertson, Jennifer Robinson and Sarah Dobbie are on the front line of the ...

All told, Cool Hand’s moment of perfection was number 105 as far as nine-darters captured by the TV cameras are concerned. The very first? More than forty years ago, and famously delivered by ...

According to the latest round of headlines, cougar relationships are hotter than ever, with older women “snatching up” eager young men half their age. Which is an interesting way to describe ...