String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical framework capable of describing the entirety of the known universe. The ...

A simple physical model based on electronic interactions between excited configurations enables the quick and reliable prediction of singlet–triplet energy gaps in polycyclic heteroaromatic emitters.

Information theory and computation is the study and development of protocols and algorithms for solving problems and analysing information. This discipline usually breaks information down into ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, connects quantum mechanics to infinitely intricate mathematical structures. Hofstadter was ...

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

Toronto police have released only a few new details on the Barry and Honey Sherman murder investigation despite an Ontario judge’s strong suggestion that “shaking the tree” might help solve the nearly ...

The ring-shaped coral islands known as atolls, like this one in the Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean, may trace their formation to sea levels repeatedly rising and falling over hundreds of ...

Frederick W. Taylor – widely regarded as the founder of scientific management – revolutionized how businesses operate by introducing time-motion studies, standardized processes and incentive-based ...

The mysterious interstellar object hurtling through our solar system has just given scientists more evidence that it may be a craft from another part of the galaxy. According to Harvard astrophysicist ...

Here’s an unexpected revelation: John Williams, one of the greatest, if not the greatest living composer for cinema, doesn’t think much of film music. Williams holds a whopping 54 Oscar nominations, ...