The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, for work that “makes you laugh, then makes you think”, came and went this year, with a clutch of worthy winners. I must report, ...

Off the coast of an Italian island, an enormous cruise ship – seventeen floors high, three soccer pitches long – is tilting noticeably to one side. The local mayor is horrified: there are thousands of ...

There are at least two kinds of games, the religious scholar James Carse explained: “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite ...