States along the U.S.-Canadian border have a chance to see the northern lights on Wednesday.

• Zachary Folk
• Forbes

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More recently, scientists have developed supercomputers that can estima…

• Rohini Subrahmanyam
• Phys.Org

Family alleges Northwestern’s actions during ‘China Initiative’ investigations linked to death of leading researcher.

• Post Magazine

Hidden deep in Bolivia’s vanishing forests, a species long thought lost has just been found alive—decades after vanishing without a trace. Its shocking reappearance has stunned scientists and exposed a fragile ecosystem teetering on collapse.

• Arezki Amiri
• The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel