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ALMA reveals that gravity reorients magnetic fields in 17 young clusters, aligning them as gas collapses and accelerating ...

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

Features can have a Draft Angle (Taper angle), which may be positive or negative. However, this only covers part of the problem. In some cases, the geometry has two faces (an inner and an outer ...

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 ...

On June 26, late at night under cover of darkness and without warning, Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller ordered city workers to paint the road lines on Adams Street yellow. Wouldn’t be a big deal except ...

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 ...

“I think that maybe it’s not two circles but one,” says Sebastian, the protagonist of Edward St Aubyn’s scintillating new novel Parallel Lines to his newly discovered sister, Olivia. They are looking ...

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 ...