William Shakespeare was born in Stratford — but he lived in London throughout his professional life. Although the capital has changed greatly over the past 400 years, traces of the …
It's no secret that scientists can be funny — but sneaking puns and jokes into peer-reviewed journal articles is no easy task. I look at the long tradition of science-publishing …
In the traditional view of quantum mechanics, everything is fuzzy and unpredictable — but as I report in a feature story for Quanta Magazine, a new experiment may lend support …
Scientists have studied climate records from far northern Europe and from Japan, dating back to the 17th and 15th centuries, respectively — and found that they point to the same …
I'm delighted to have won the 2015 Science in Society Journalism Award from the Canadian Science Writers' Association, for my story on artificial intelligence, focusing on the work of AI …
Lisa Randall puts forward a bold idea about how the dinosaurs met their demise – and the role that an exotic kind of matter may have played. We look at …
Scholars have long debated the origins of the texts that make up the Hebrew Bible. As I report in Mental Floss, a new study points to a rise in literacy …
What better time than February 29 — a date that comes only once every four years — to reflect on the peculiarities of our calendar, a system that has come …
