From Visconti’s 1963 film to Netflix’s new series, The Leopard remains deeply tied to its settings—here’s an exploration of ...

Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet ...

Amazon Promising review: "I work from home at night. I never see the light of day during the winter. This light has been a ...

The novel’s elliptical style reflects the narrator’s sense that life is “all things all at the same time.” It also mirrors the elusive nature of her subject: the daring, outlandish father ...

It is not long—more a novella than a novel—but it is wildly ambitious: a consideration of nation-building, oppression, and familial trauma, written in an elliptical, allusive style that ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants ...

The "egg" is another galaxy (NGC 2937) with a compact elliptical shape and a large number ... can see all over the universe with its enormous mirror, but it can't see itself.

Since last April 20, when bullet wounds seared his foot, legs and chest, and the numbing impact of a point-blank shotgun blast left fragments of his face on the ground next to him, Lance has seldom ...

Astronomers can use it as a kind of cosmic mirror, comparing its satellites to the ones hidden ... In the aftermath, gravity tore away its outer layers, leaving behind only the dense, elliptical core ...

Ruth GriffithsRuth GriffithsRuth Griffiths is a regular columnist in the Prince Albert Daily Herald Rural Roots edition and a former Rural Roots editor.