Her Miss Marple, the super sleuth who stars in 12 of Christie’s novels, isn’t a solo act. She comes fully attached to her fictional home of St. Mary Mead, an English village pared down to basics.

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Neutrinos could solve an antimatter mystery : Short Wave At the beginning of the universe, annihilation reigned supreme. Equal amounts of matter and antimatter collided.

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Suppose aliens land on our planet and want to learn our current scientific knowledge. I would start with the 40-year-old documentary Powers of Ten.Granted, it’s a bit out of date, but this short ...

I tried to answer this question when I challenged AI developers to solve the nearly century-old Cain’s Jawbone, a murder-mystery puzzle book from 1934. The book arrived in my life as ...

The Timely Arrival Mystery in Indiana Jones & The Great Circle has a complex puzzle that can be tricky to solve without looking for the right clues.

In 1984, a poem helped solve a 20-year mystery: Who killed Cyrus Everett and Donna Mauch? The handwritten verses were delivered to Tom Harvey, editor of a weekly newspaper, the Fort Fairfield Revie… ...

What made you want to investigate the story — and whereabouts — of Satoshi Nakamoto? When I heard about Bitcoin in 2009, 2010, 2011 … I didn't really know what it was.