Tuesday was a marquee day at the Milan Cortina Olympics as the women's figure skating competition got underway.

Any lingering trauma is instantly suppressed, though, when I arrive at The Finish Line – two new luxury waterfront apartments in historic Battery Point in Hobart. The name references the property’s ...

Understanding the relationships between lines – whether they run side-by-side, diverging into infinity, or intersect at a perfect right angle – is fundamental to geometry and a cornerstone of ...

Alternate interior angles are pairs of equal angles formed on opposite sides of a transversal, but inside two parallel lines. Angles of elevation and depression are alternate interior angles. That is, ...

Horizontal lines run left to right, parallel to the horizon, with slope 0 and equation y = k. Vertical lines run top to bottom, perpendicular to the horizon, with undefined slope and equation x = k.

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Edward St. Aubyn’s five-book cycle, the Patrick Melrose novels, published between 1992 and 2011 and now widely recognized as a classic of British literature, covers a lot of territory in the chronicle ...

Death, psychosis, apocalypse — it’s a strong mixture for a novel. In the hands of a writer less capable than Edward St Aubyn, it would probably add up to a fatal dose for a book that you were actually ...

A SPRAWLING, convoluted and underwhelming new novel from the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, which are one of the great literary portraits of outrageous family dysfunction. Sebastian is ...

Crows are arguably among the smartest creatures on the planet, possessing some cognitive abilities that rival those of 5- to 7-year-old human children. Now, a new study adds basic geometry to the list ...

Crows are able to look at a handful of four-sided shapes and correctly distinguish those that exhibit geometric regularity from those that don't, according to a provocative new study. It's the first ...