For people around the world, the Times Square Ball Drop on New Year’s Eve is a symbolic gesture to acknowledge the passage of ...

NYE celebrations at Times Square have been held for 122 years, "ever since the owners of One Times Square began to conduct ...

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It’s out with the old and in with the new in Times Square this year as the famous New Year’s Eve ball drop rings in 2026 with a dazzling new ball — the largest in the history of an event that started ...

Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States observed on the first Monday of September to honor the labor movement and the contributions of American workers to the nation’s growth and ...

Squaring — multiplying a number by itself — seems harmless, but repeat it long enough and it becomes a mathematical explosion. What begins as 2² quickly turns into 2⁴, 2⁸, 2¹⁶ — racing past the limits ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Todd H. Baker is the managing principal at Broadmoor Consulting and senior fellow at Richman Center for ...

A 14-year-old math prodigy from India, Aaryan Shukla, broke six Guinness World Records in 24 hours with his lightning-fast mental calculations. Known as a human calculator, Aaryan uses daily practice ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...