Scientists have many big questions to tackle about the universe, including how big it actually is. But even the proposed ...

The darkness of the night sky is one of the universe’s greatest deceptions. According to an ancient paradox, an infinite ...

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GEOMETERS are wont to speak (it seems to me) somewhat laxly of “the line at infinity” as if there were only one such line in a plane; in a certain but not in the most obvious sense this is true—viz.

Once upon a time, there were three scientists––a biologist, an engineer, and a chemist. Each of them loved the ocean and liked nothing better than to walk its shores and study its inhabitants. They ...