This year, we’ll be blessed with new novels by Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, Andrew Sean Greer, and so many more celebrated ...

Random lasers can be made simply by grinding a laser crystal and optically pumping the resulting powder. The physics behind the resulting laser emission is rich but has led to much controversy. New ...

Whether you're assigning random shifts, anonymizing a study, or shuffling a deck, randomizing rows in an Excel table manually is guaranteed to result in mistakes. So, instead of dragging and dropping ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Few things warm the hearts of readers quite as much as a rediscovery. Especially when the original literary ...

The farming and socializing simulator Stardew Valley has proved very popular, selling over 20 million copies across a variety of platforms since its release in 2016. With its mix of resource ...