Nearly a year after the University announced it was phasing out all 23 of the creative writing lecturers over the course of the next two years, the first set of lecturers have said their goodbyes to ...

Babak Shahbazi was a 44-year-old father-of-two - Iran Human Rights A father-of-two has been executed in Iran after being convicted of spying for Israel. Babak Shahbazi was hanged in prison on ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Brain teasers are a fantastic way that can engage your mind, and it enables your creative thinking while increasing your focus and reasoning skills. These puzzles are not only entertaining, but they ...

The University of Arizona is terminating its Writing Skills Improvement Program, a move that closes the door for students to receive instruction from specialists with professional degrees in writing, ...

I have a friend—let’s call him Mr. Pancakes—who has come up with a fun game for us. Mr. Pancakes was observing, apropos of nothing, that there aren’t many words that rhyme with “Dallas.” He’s right. I ...

Alphabet’s life sciences arm Verily laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program Monday. CEO Stephen Gillett announced the “difficult decision” to wind down the program in a staff memo, ...

ROSWELL, Ga. — A Roswell couple came home from vacation to an unsettling surprise — a four-foot python hiding under their deck. “I saw it out of the corner of my eye, and I look over, and it’s right ...

A word puzzle features a grid filled with letters that are arranged in a random order. Hiding in the random arrangement of letters are certain words, which the reader needs to find by connecting the ...