Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

If you’ve ever wandered through a library and wondered why history is over here, while cooking lives comfortably over there, you have Melvil Dewey to thank. He’s the 19th-century librarian who looked ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Following the passage of the Rescissions Act of 2025 that defunded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and left the organization without operating funds for the fiscal year ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. All you need to do is open an online editor and code away! Which is exactly what we’re going to ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

Starbucks announced a major change to its reward system. The coffee giant is making it a little harder to rack up Stars this summer, meaning it may take longer for rewards members to gain enough for a ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a long ...

Millisecond pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit radio waves. These stars achieve their extraordinary rotation rates by siphoning matter from a close stellar companion. The formation ...

Discusses the importance of number systems, tracing their origins from early human counting methods using fingers to modern numeral systems. It explains the decimal system, place value, and how ...