On 25 May 2006, the world watched. Australian climber Lincoln Hall had achieved what many only dream of: he summited Mount Everest, conquering the north side of the world’s highest peak. A monumental ...

Hailing from the dangerous planet Poppup, the Poppupians evolved to be able to change themselves into anything in an instant to survive. When he realized that his powers made him the most powerful ...

“The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his iconoclastic complexity. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

Reading about the lives of geniuses can be a powerful antidote against any envy we might feel for not being among their number. Almost invariably they turn out not only to have had the same flaws, ...

Get a first look at video and photos of Broadway star and multiple Drama Desk nominee Ryan Silverman (Broadway’s Side Show, Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera) as the most famous illusionist and ...