‘The Travellers’ Tour Through the United States’ is the earliest known board game to depict a map of North America.
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Few copies remain of the earliest known board game produced in the US.
Two particles are said to be entangled when one cannot be perfectly described without information about the other being included.
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The quantum nature of light can be harnessed for a variety of purposes.
Did ancient Egyptian parents worry their kids might get addicted to this game, called senet?
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Somewhere between the early Buddhist times and today, worries about game addiction have given way to scientific understanding of the benefits of play, rather than its detriments.