What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself ...

Life is a unique story written and performed in the tension of invisible strings, unique to each individual, as we are both ...

Recently, my son gave me a book for my birthday, “The Philosophy of Walking” by Frederic Gros. I thought, “Who can write an entire book about such an elementary task?” ...

This is, incidentally, why we sometimes observe planets appearing to approach closely to each other on the sky, as we view them along a line while they careen around the cosmic racetrack. This is ...

THIS book, which makes delightful reading, expresses the conviction that modern mathematics and physics make the world appear more and more as an open one; that is, they point to a world beyond ...

TORONTO: Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it — an effect dismissed as an illusion caused by how waves are distorted by matter.

Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it—an effect dismissed as an illusion caused by how waves are distorted by matter. Now, researchers ...