The scientific paper—the actual form of it—was one of the enabling inventions of modernity. Before it was developed in the 1600s, results were communicated privately in letters, ephemerally in ...

Soccer and sketch comedy are two of my favorite things in the whole wide world. But sketch comedy about soccer is notoriously hard to do well. Thankfully, the 11 sketches below, from both sides of the ...

When hackers leaked thousands of e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, last year, global-warming sceptics pored over the documents for signs ...