In "My Brother's Keeper," Nicholas Rosenlicht taps into the frustration that many Americans feel about the U.S. health care ...

Willem Dafoe is one of the world’s biggest actors — but over five decades on screen, he’s been consistently drawn to oddballs ...

Ingebrigt Vik's portrait of mathematician Nils Henrik Abel shows the genius but frail and sick mathematician, with a weighed-down and emaciated head and slender body. The sketch for the sculpture was ...

Born in Southern California but raised in northern Nevada from a young age, Abel Garcia proudly calls the Silver State home. His journalism journey began in Reno at KOLO 8 News Now, starting as a ...

Counting cards has long been a subject of fascination and controversy in the world of gambling. From its depiction in movies ...

Yau’s maths centre at Tsinghua in Beijing is one example where top foreign mathematicians have been recruited.

It may come as a surprise, but mathematicians have long known that there is more than one kind of infinity. In 1878, Georg Cantor first showed that the infinite set of real numbers, which includes ...

The difficulties of getting large furniture into your home will be familiar to many people, but mathematicians have taken a particular interest in the moving sofa problem ever since it was first ...

Here’s how it works. Twenty-five years too late to help Ross get his new couch into his apartment in "Friends," a mathematician has finally solved the pesky "sofa problem." The math problem ...