In this interview, author Maggie Su discusses how a 10-page short story turned into her debut novel, Blob: A Love Story.

At first, authorities decided to shut nine beaches while they investigated the unusual grey and white blobs - although most have since reopened. It's not the first time that strange objects have ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...

In doing so, they found what look very much like the remnants of tectonic plates, huge blobs of rock that are cooler and higher-density than the surrounding lower mantle. These fragments of our ...