I hadn’t really appreciated, before Ludwig came out, that cryptic crosswords are something with a strong British flavor, ...

The mission of community land trusts is right in the name: community. But they require new funding sources to expand beyond small-scale projects.

In Connections, players must group 16 words into four categories based on their relationships. Each group is coded by color to indicate difficulty: yellow for the easiest, followed by green, blue, and ...

The easiest example for me was 62-Across, [* Composed *], which solves to WRITTEN IN THE STARS. The word “Composed,” defined ...

The new phase comes in the form of a pattern of electron spins—half of which are highly ordered, or "cold", and the rest of ...

Now, more than 122 years after it was first proposed, Kamata and two other mathematicians have finally proved that a solution ...

Wordle is a word puzzle that gives players six chances to guess a five-letter word. Originally created by software engineer Josh Wardle and released to the public in 2021, the puzzle was acquired by ...

I came to Your House for the art, the Daniel Clowes and Jaime Hernandez inspired illustrations, the kitsch 1960s comic art ...

Mensa, the renowned high IQ society, has released a new brain-teaser that’s causing quite a stir on social media. This ...

Looking for clues for today's Connections answers? The Connections answers on March 19 for puzzle #647 are the same ...

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This artistic illustration provided by the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) shows the interstellar dust in the Milky Way and China's Large Sky Area ...