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Several ancient and medieval texts at McGill University Library and Archives are being deciphered. One of the most interesting texts is a receipt for a huge land-transfer tax.

Check out these photos of the "Pi Day of the Century" event at the 2015 SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas.

Top sustainable-development guru Jeffrey Sachs can get world leaders on board for saving the planet, but is the optimism of his vision enough?

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The beginning of a new era in solar technology with the Solar Impulse 2 and and amur tiger family portrait, spelunkers finding ancient coins and the eruption of a Chilean volcano -- just a few of our favorite photos in S...

A recently translated ancient Egyptian tax receipt shows a bill that is (literally) heavier than any American taxpayer will pay this year -- more than 220 lbs. (100 kilograms) of coins.

Will it rain this weekend? It's a simple question, but the best answer comes down to probability, says Ken Mylne of the UK Met Office (full text available to subscribers)

The latest edition of the world's favourite hobby computer is here and, to celebrate Pi Day, we have 50 to give away (full text available to subscribers)

Researchers from General Atomics and the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have made a major breakthrough in understanding how potentially damaging heat bursts inside a fusion reactor...