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 ...

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 ...

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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There are in fact two separate assumptions: “infinitely big” and “infinitely small.” By infinitely big, I mean that space can have infinite volume, that time can continue forever, and that there can ...

In our conversation Matreyek discusses the project in detail. This brilliant new work, Infinitely Yours, sounds like a film but is, at the same time, a live theatrical experience. I see it's also ...

Whenever I watch a movie or TV show where one or more of the characters is “afflicted” with mental illness, I do so with both caution and cynicism. I brace myself for what often seems like an ...