Egypt's greatest mysteries—lost tombs, cryptic texts, and eerie curses—continue to intrigue, with leading theories offering ...

HISTORIANS of mathematics attribute the first use of the cross x as a symbol for multiplication to William Oughtred (“Clavis Mathematicae”, London, 1631). See W. W. R. Ball's “Short Account ...

There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has chosen it as its word for the year for 2024. “Brain rot” took the ...

Starting next month, Costco will no longer stock a table of books in most of its stores. Instead, it will bring out a selection of books just for the holidays but will keep a full section in only ...

A woman with a red ribbon symbolising the fight against Aids in Kyiv, Ukraine. The red ribbon ha been a symbol of Aids since 1991. File image/Reuters Almost 65 years after the world’s first Aids case ...

Last week, Apple rolled out its latest holiday ad, and it is beautiful. It’s clear to me that the team at TBWAMedia Arts Lab, Apple’s ad agency, understood the assignment. After all, a holiday ...

King Tutankhamun, affectionately known as King Tut, remains one of the most captivating figures in ancient Egyptian history. Despite his short reign, his tomb's discovery in 1922 revealed a treasure ...

Queen Tiye remains a symbol of the power and influence a woman could wield in the ancient world even ... While Tiye was instrumental in initiating the religious reforms that influenced Amenhotep IV ...

Now, a team from the University of Bologna in Italy has linked symbols on ancient Mesopotamian seals with an archaic visual communication system called proto-cuneiform; an art form which would in time ...

Behind all the supercomputers, machine learning, and exotic materials used to create modern speed are the basic symbols and equations that dictate and describe the science of going fast.