Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy. Glyn Williams investigates the standards he set in maritime exploration. The three major voyages of ...

The two best bets to win the gold medal in women’s halfpipe skiing at the Winter Olympics were born in the United States. Zoe Atkin competes for Britain and hardly anyone raises a fuss about ...

"My kindergarten teacher really had it out for me. I found myself in trouble quite a bit, which is unlike my personality. When you are so young though, you don’t realize an adult might be the one in ...

The backstory: The collection of 19 manuscripts written on scrolls of papyrus and linen fragments are fragile, with one of them dating back nearly 3,500 years. Because of that, the materials are not ...

Hallmark star Danica McKellar started her career as a child star on the hit show "The Wonder Years" but she had to change tacks to re-establish a sense of self.

Ubiquitous screens, classroom chaos, a dearth of qualified teachers: The reasons our children are struggling in math class ...

It’s a breakthrough in the field of random walks.

An engineering student refined a century-old math problem into a simpler, more elegant form, making it easier to use and explore. Divya Tyagi's work expands research in aerodynamics, unlocking new ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Metabolic age is a term that gets thrown around by fitness experts and even medical professionals, but what does it really ...