Not having a measuring tape or a ruler to hand can be very annoying when you've got your mind set on doing a basic DIY home improvement task. What's even more frustrating is trying to measure the ...

There is Pi all around us, in ways you may not have seen before. If you remember from school, Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It is a number that is usually written as ...

Reporters use string to measure the circumference of a Market Basket pizza only to realize it wasn’t a perfect circle. The popular supermarket chain offers 19-inch pizzas served in 18-inch boxes.

Is the universe infinite, Aristotle asked in 350 BCE, “or is this an impossibility? The decision … is … all-important to our search for the truth.” The Greek ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...