Nature

Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

Choreographer Lorin Latarro on Modernizing ‘Chess,’ Empowering Her Female Ensemble During ‘One Night in Bangkok’ and the Dance Move that Took Six Hours …

The show is set amid the Cold War and follows Freddie Trumper (Tveit) and a Soviet chess champion, Anatoly Sergievsky ...
IGN

Lawsuit Claims Hasbro Misled Investors Regarding Sales of Controversial Magic: the Gathering Anniversary Set

A new lawsuit filed by shareholders of Hasbro against the company and its directors alleges that company leadership has mismanaged Magic: The Gathering by overprinting sets of cards, thereby devaluing ...

9 vs. 8 upset rankings: How NCAA Tournament coin flips are expected to play out in first round

While technically an upset, seeing a No. 9 seed defeat a No. 8 seed in the NCAA College Basketball Tournament certainly isn't uncommon. It happened in three of the four matchups two years ago, and two ...
Jacobin

Vilfredo Pareto’s Sociology of a Ruling Class in Decline

Vilfredo Pareto once observed that history was a “graveyard of aristocracies” as ruling elites gradually become decadent, depraved, and dysfunctional. The contemporary United States is a disturbingly ...