We measure on average 1.70 meters (about 5 feet 7 inches). A common height that seems normal in our human-scale world. Yet, when we compare it to the smallest and largest conceivable distances in the ...

Anyone who doesn’t know going in that “Infinitely Polar Bear” is based on a true story will figure it out within minutes. Among the telltale signs, the movie insists on details that are distracting ...

Mathematicians have been studying the distribution of prime numbers for thousands of years. Recent results about a curious kind of prime offer a new take on how spread out they can be. You may have ...

The twin primes conjecture is one of the most important and difficult questions in mathematics. Two mathematicians have solved a parallel version of the problem for small number systems. On September ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

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