Squaring a square sounds simple, but the math behind it is one of the strangest puzzles ever created. It requires cutting a square into smaller squares—all different sizes—with a pattern that doesn’t ...

A Christian anthropologist explains why we should talk about hard things and how to do it. When I was a kid, holidays meant playing in my grandparents’ basement with my brother and cousins. We turned ...

Major League Baseball has created new safeguards to limit pitch-level betting markets, according to a league release issued Monday. The new measures, which are effective immediately and made with ...

It’s common for people to open a short video, thinking they’ll just watch the one — then realize they’re still on the app an hour later. YouTube is adding a new timer feature to help users manage this ...

What’s happened? YouTube is rolling out a new feature to help users waste less time on Shorts. Why is this important? The built-in timer should help users monitor and limit the time they spend ...

[Editor’s Note: Soundcheck Columnist Simone Goldstone took a detour to Austin, Texas earlier this month for the Austin City Limits Music Festival and filed this report.] The Austin skyline looms in ...

Draw four lines beginning and ending at the gray points to break this square into pieces that can be rearranged into five identical squares. Show puzzle solution Bonus: Suppose you can use any number ...

Mastering quick square root calculations boosts maths exam performance. Speed and accuracy provide a significant advantage in algebra and geometry. Memorising key square roots and using mental math ...

In a small corner of San Francisco’s bustling Chinatown, silence fell for a brief moment on Thursday evening as some 200 people gathered to mark 32 years since Beijing’s bloody crackdown of ...

Abner Uribe limits the damage in the 8th inning by inducing an inning-ending double play to maintain the Brewers' 2-1 lead ...

Today is Cinco de Mayo. And this year, the fifth of May is filled with mathematical joy. It is — Square Root Day! It all started in 1981. "I was writing a check in late August," says Ron Gordon, who ...