Scientists will meet next week in Versailles, France, to fundamentally redefine the International System of Units—the metric system—which underpins global science and economy.
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the colossal idiocy that was World War I, a good time to consider Svejk. He is the quintessential soldier and The Good Soldier Svejk is the quintessential antiwar novel.
It’s almost Halloween. Looking for appropriate reading material? The definitive vampire tale, Dracula shows very little age more than 120 years after it was written.
Everyone knows about them, many have read them, but the books are worth reading again.
Who knew the End Time would be this funny?
The beginning and end of fantasy literature.
A bio of Harold Ross, the creator of one of our premier magazines and the catalyst for assembling a cast of some of the most interesting characters in journalism and publishing.
Bringing magic back to England is neither simple nor safe.
NIST opens nominations for lightweight cryptographic algorithms that could become standards for securing devices across the Internet of Things.
This combination of Ray Bradbury and Steven King—with just a dash of H.P. Lovecraft—is a genuinely scary book.