In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research laid the foundation for modern knot theory, was trying to find a ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The California ballot measure that will ask voters whether they approve a new congressional map created by Democrats, temporarily working around the state's independent redistricting commission, ...

“The seven-year-old cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) that I’m inspecting in this photo is part of the Model Cocoa Orchard established by the University of the West Indies’ Cocoa Research Centre (CRC), ...

The death of a Black student found hanging from a tree on a Mississippi college campus this week has been ruled a suicide by the state’s medical office, but the family says it will seek an independent ...

Fighters Gervonta Davis and Jake Paul made a public appearance at a press conference together in anticipation of their November 14 fight. During the face-to-face encounter, Paul took a jibe at his ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. On a recent Friday morning, I found myself in a sea of bodies waiting to be admitted to Universal’s new $7 billion Orlando theme park, Epic Universe. Speakers ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out Everest has steep competition. Mount Everest, left, tops out at 29,032 feet ...

The death of a 21-year-old Black student whose body was found hanging from a tree on a university campus in Mississippi has sparked outrage and allegations online, even after officials said there was ...

Towering over a centuries-old treestand in western Montana is an ancient Western Larch that goes by the name Gus. At more than 150 feet tall, Gus has survived the Christian Crusades, seen the fall of ...

"We're reconstructing the full 3D motion of an object that's billions of light-years away, using only ripples in spacetime." The team’s next steps will be to look for more black hole mergers to ...