Joan Tasca contemplated a skull while standing on the outdoor stage at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park. She wasn't performing an avante garde version of “Hamlet” and the skull's name was George, ...

High-dimensional spheres can have a much wider variety of structures than mathematicians thought possible. If you’ve ever been stuck in traffic on a rainy afternoon, you’ve probably watched raindrops ...

We’ve all learned “parallel lines never intersect” in high school geometry. But what your teachers failed to explain is that “parallel lines never intersect” is only true in Euclidean geometry, which ...