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All lakes, by definition, are temporary. They naturally fill in with sedimentary deposits and disappear, though their geologic lives tend to span millennia. 

When it comes to the workings of the universe, Albert Einstein famously said, “God does not play dice.” Einstein said nothing about the dreidel, however, which may explain why Earth and the other planets in our solar system spin like tops...

An interview with Robert Lang, recognized as one of the pioneers of the marriage of origami with mathematics and technology.

Twenty-​odd years ago, a friend of mine, a sober-​minded accountant, fell into an unwonted moment of irrational exuberance.

A conversation with Ronald L. Mallett, a Research Professor of Physics at the University of Connecticut, where he has been developing a theory for time travel.

In 1931, Robert Penn Warren received free books in exchange for penning unsigned reviews for the Virginia Quarterly Review. However, his poems and stories were repeatedly rejected. Finally, he wrote the editor, Stringfellow Barr: “If my...

Schuyler Towne, thirty, is an expert lockpicker. Learn about the art and ethics of breaking in.