Here is a simple-looking visual trick challenges your perception of two lines. What you see may surprise you, revealing how ...

Optical illusions have fascinated scientists, psychologists, and artists for centuries because they reveal one simple truth ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

Temperatures in the Triangle could feel up to 100 degrees this weekend. Yet, people continue to bear the heat and wait in long lines outside the DMV during Saturday hours—despite statements from the ...

Excavations at the megalithic complex in Carnac, France, have revealed that it may be the oldest site of its kind in Europe. Archaeologists working at Le Plasker—a newly discovered section of the ...

The reason for the disorientation soon becomes apparent. The book’s first chapter revolves around a young Englishman named Sebastian, who is schizophrenic and a patient in the suicide observation room ...

Edward St. Aubyn’s five-book cycle, the Patrick Melrose novels, published between 1992 and 2011 and now widely recognized as a classic of British literature, covers a lot of territory in the chronicle ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a brand-new adaptive phasor measurement unit (PMU) based protection scheme for both transposed and untransposed parallel transmission lines. The development of the scheme ...

Liverpool were officially crowned Premier League champions with four matches left to play in the 2024–25 season, leaving Arne Slot's men plenty to celebrate in the coming weeks. Although Liverpool ...

Death, psychosis, apocalypse — it’s a strong mixture for a novel. In the hands of a writer less capable than Edward St Aubyn, it would probably add up to a fatal dose for a book that you were actually ...