It leads off with a statistic that sounds almost trivial but masks a profoundly puzzling problem: interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ...

It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the ...

A new study by Northwestern University researchers and coworkers explains a puzzling problem with maps of future earthquake shaking used to design earthquake-resistant buildings. Although ...

When the pandemic upended the world of higher education, Robin Pugh, a professor at City College of San Francisco, began to see one puzzling problem in her online courses: Not everyone was a real ...

For years, I have been amused and saddened by the ever-increasing examples of editors abdicating their authority to spell-checkers. Now I find that even crossword puzzle editors have seemingly ...