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Institute of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, United States ...

A stereogram optical illusion is a fascinating visual puzzle that hides a 3D image within a 2D pattern. At first glance, it appears to be a random collection of repeating designs or colourful dots.

That's the message from the price chart, which shows the sharp pull back from the record high of $126,000 on Oct. 8 to recent lows near $106,000, which has left many bulls demoralized, is quietly ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

In a shocking sequence of events, two Haryana police officers have died in apparent suicides just one week apart, leaving behind a trail of contradictory allegations that have plunged the state's law ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

I’d never met Redford, but that piece of paper was a magic portal to all kinds of pink-cloud fantasies. I stuck it up on my cubicle in the Washington bureau of the New York Times and gazed at it ...

A brain teaser is a short, playful puzzle designed to make your mind stretch and smile. It could be a riddle, a tricky question, a visual illusion, or a logic twist that nudges you to think beyond the ...