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After the deaths of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, legal experts explain how the “slayer rule” can block a killer from inheriting—and what could happen next in probate court.

For four decades, a quiet boundary in pure mathematics kept a powerful theorem locked inside the safe world of finite quantities. Now a new result known as Sebestyen’s theorem has pushed that boundary ...

Clint Bentley, Hikari, Noah Oppenheim and Will Tracy round out this year’s conversation highlighting some of the Oscar ...

When professionals get it wrong, the consequences can range from awkward to genuinely alarming. This collection brings ...