Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. Grab something ...

Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. Grab something circular, like a cup, measure the distance around the circle, and divide ...

Ever find yourself reading a Wikipedia page and then following a link to another interesting article and from there to other pages? I get lost down these Wiki rabbit holes all of the time and before I ...

On a snowy night in 1961, Bennett Cerf, one of the founders of the publisher Random House, excused himself from a dinner party to watch his favorite television show. His hosts, the writer Robert Penn ...

Tari Eason finished with 13 points and eight rebounds in Monday night's Rockets win over the Pacers. Tim Warner / Getty Images HOUSTON — With some players, it’s easy to break down their impact on the ...

And yet fear is among his recurring themes. Each of Alameddine’s books, dissimilar as they otherwise may be, is an attempt to wrestle with the terrifying arbitrariness of fate. This preoccupation ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

The world may seem orderly, but randomness and chaos shape everything in the universe, from enormous galaxies all the way down to subatomic particles. Take a chilly window sheeting over with ice: even ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

As Thomas Merton, theologian and writer, often suggested, much of our life is sustained by a rhythm, and when rhythms falter, the soul tends to follow suit. And so it is that one of the most ...