It’s March 14, a.k.a. Pi Day. For those of you who haven’t brushed up on your high school math in a couple years – or decades – pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Math ...

Welcome to Part 4 of the ‘Most Difficult General Knowledge Test’! This isn’t your typical trivia quiz with questions like “Who theorized E=mc²?” or “What is the capital of Spain?” Instead, we’re ...

Whether you're cooking up chemistry, getting physical with physics or bending your mind over mathematics, one thing that remains constant is, well, constants. Some numbers are so fundamental to the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Pi Day is observed every year on March 14, marking the significance of the mathematical constant π (pi). The day is commemorated by mathematics enthusiasts around the world in recognition of the ...

Every year on March 14, classrooms, universities and research institutions across the world turn their attention to a subject that quietly shapes modern civilisation, mathematics. The date is observed ...