In the 1930s Werner Burau, a German mathematician, introduced a twisted geometrical mystery that would stand for nearly a century. Previously, mathematicians had shown that knots could be reformulated ...

Even some of Donald Trump's own supporters have admitted they are underwhelmed by the president's self-hyped Great American State Fair in D.C. Trump's 16-day spectacle on the National Mall, which ...

In April of this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) called for an investigation into the TV ratings system to assess whether or not “content related to gender identity” was being ...

The Supreme Court’s ruling to limit a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act this week adds a new bend to the winding history of Black representation in Congress, fueling fear from civil rights ...

Katherine Chui, a graphics reporter, analyzed two centuries of census and congressional data. Emily Cochrane is based in Nashville and covers the American South. April 30, 2026 The central tenet of ...

Cherise Doyley was forced to attend a court hearing from her hospital bed — with no legal representation — because she did not consent to a C-section Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on ...

Abstract: The sparse array could reduce the cost of physical antennas. However, implementing wideband beamforming directly based on the covariance matrix of the received signals from the sparse array ...

C-Tran’s board on Tuesday agreed to alter its structure after resisting an edict from the Washington State Department of Transportation for nine months. The board will switch to the state’s preferred ...

Proportional representation opens the door to more choice because it becomes possible for a smaller party to win one seat out of five, for example. It would begin to break up the two-party system that ...

In the face of widespread pessimism about the political fate of the United States and growing political polarization, scholars and citizens across the country are reimagining how American democracy ...