We've been studying them for millennia, so how far have we come?

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A living genius recently solved an ancient mathematical problem, first tackled by Greek mathematician Euclid over two millennia ago. However, the brain behind the impressive solution is an imprisoned ...

In Connecticut, formerly incarcerated people are building bookshelves and filling them with books for donation to prisons. They say reading helped them get through their own sentences. Congress has ...

CONNECTICUT, USA — A Connecticut-based couple hopes to bring the warm and safe feeling of being curled up on the couch, wrapped in a blanket and lost in the pages of a good book to immigrant children ...

In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires. A detail from Samuel Colman’s “The Edge of Doom” (1836-38).Credit...Samuel ...