For centuries, mathematics was seen as the one discipline immune to contradiction — until one man proved it wasn’t. In the early 20th century, Kurt Gödel uncovered a flaw buried inside logic itself, ...

It starts with a question no gunner can answer in the moment: how many shells will it take to bring down that one-aircraft—a hundred, a thousand, or tens of thousands? The truth, learned the hard way ...

President Donald Trump bragged that he was delivering on affordability for Americans after Walmart shared that its annual Thanksgiving meal was cheaper than last year’s — though Internet sleuths are ...

How do opinions form and change in large groups of people? That's not just a sociological question, it's a mathematical one. Ph.D. candidate Federico Capannoli studied opinion dynamics. He defended ...