The study ricocheted around the world. Almost 200 news stories promoted the idea that we remember things better when we write them down by hand instead of typing. It confirmed what many of us ...

Serling’s closing narration, which a modern writing teacher would probably dismiss as “too on-the-nose,” stops short of saying what, exactly, motivated the episode. “The tools of conquest do not ...

A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime numbers. The primes—numbers that are only divisible by ...

In 2015, for example, he urged one of his colleagues—computational biologist Serge Batalov—to seek a reverse Smarandache prime number. He noted that writing out numbers in descending order ...