Every freshman at Stevens hears the same whispered warning during their first semester: “Don’t anger the Torch Bearer.” At first, it sounds like a joke — another harmless Stevens tradition, like ...

It was a damp, moonless night when the screams echoed from behind the Howe Center. Students passing by swore they saw the flicker of wings—thousands of them—spiraling in the glow of a lone streetlamp.

About 60 years ago, the original Star Trek series featured a technology called a “warp drive,” which allowed space travel at speeds much faster than ...

About 60 years ago, the original Star Trek series featured a technology called a “warp drive,” which allowed space travel at speeds much faster than ...

Pumpkin pie, pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin everything; it’s pumpkin season! I’ve been scrolling through Pinterest all day trying to find the perfect pumpkin carving idea. But what happens after I’ve ...

As a mathematician who tries to keep up with politics regularly, it may come as a surprise that I am not a huge fan of political polling. Granted, there are tons of exciting mathematical questions at ...

Candy, one of the greatest joys of Halloween. It’s especially exciting when you return home to pick out all of your favorite candy from your pile of spoils. Unfortunately, I have opinions about a lot ...

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman is a dystopian novel about a group of 40 women trapped in a bunker, unaware of how they got there, and their eventual escape. The narrator is the ...

The 2025 Ig Nobel ceremony, held at Boston University, continued the tradition of celebrating unorthodox curiosity. Winners included researchers who discovered that painting cows with zebra-like ...

With Halloween around the corner, most of us can’t wait to get through this week and embrace the “Halloweekend.” Between the costumes, parties, and treats, we finally get to escape from the weight of ...

Happy spooky season, ducks! As we reach the halfway point of the fall semester, it turns out that the true horror students stumble upon isn’t just midterms, but instead it's group projects! When a ...

What started out as a nightmare depicting a “hideous” phantasm of a man would turn into the cultural phenomenon that is the creature from Frankenstein. Mary Shelley’s influence can be seen in cereal, ...