Recently, Sarah Zhang, a science writer for Wired who calls California’s Bay Area home, had been wondering if the concept of earthquake magnitude—introduced by the development of the Richter scale in ...

In the study of natural disasters—be they tornadoes, hurricanes, snowpacolyses, or Florida on a weekday—the event’s magnitude is just as vital to our understanding as its duration and frequency.

OXFORD — Richter Scale is not a concept we hear much anymore during news reports, either predicting earthquakes or reporting on them. In recent years, the “magnitude” of the earthquake is mostly the ...

The global fascination with Sudoku has led to a sudden interest in the mathematical properties of the puzzle. In the last few months on this blog, we’ve looked at how mathematicians have solved the ...