If, of late, you haven’t heard of or read about the Jevons Paradox, you likely will. Named after 19th-century British economist William Stanley Jevons who observed in his 1865 book The Coal Question, ...

Many scientists hold the belief that the paradoxes associated with time travel, which have perplexed thinkers for centuries, can indeed be resolved. This notion arises from various scientific theories ...

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, ...

We are always solving problems, some of which have instantly obvious solutions and others that do not. In the latter case, the word puzzle comes to mind instead. A problem can be defined therefore as ...

Although the concept of the common good has been subject to normative theorising for millennia, it is now widely understood as an "essentially contested concept," leading scholars to argue that, in ...