Kenya’s High Court ends a 30-year inheritance dispute, splitting 253 acres equally among 31 heirs, sparking debate on fairness versus economic sense.

Students in some Portland-area districts get five weeks more time in class every year than others who live only a few miles away but are enrolled in different school systems, a new analysis by The ...

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A 37% tax rate could drive anyone to move to Mars.

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

While beating an AI at a board game may seem relatively trivial, it can help us identify failure modes of the AI, or ways in which we can improve their training to avoid having them develop these ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Fashion insiders and beauty magazines have long cited the "20-year-rule"—the idea that clothing trends often resurface every two decades. According to Northwestern University scientists, that ...

There are four levels to play, each divided into three stages. You start by learning the home row keys. Each stage builds on previous lessons, introducing new letters as you progress and giving you ...