It’s the sort of easy maths problem that you can work out in a few minutes using pencil and paper, but physicists in China, Canada and Singapore have now solved pairs of linear equations like this one ...

If you read financial books and magazines, visit financial websites, and watch money-focused TV, you'll come to the conclusion that managing money is complicated. The issues associated with handling ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Power electronic system designers know about natural convection, which starts with the simple statement: Hot air rises. For example, a power ...

For the same reason more than one person solves most other types of equations. Unlike simple equations such as, say, the quadratic equation you learn about in high school, most equations do not have ...

New analysis based on simple equations has reduced uncertainty about how clouds will affect future climate change. New analysis based on simple equations has reduced uncertainty about how clouds will ...

News of a subtle quadratic equation breakthrough has brought algebra forward from the very back of many people’s minds, and algebra is always part of the “when will I ever use this?” rubric people use ...

A mathematician has developed a new method for processing large volumes of COVID-19 tests which he believes could lead to significantly more tests being performed at once and results being returned ...

The effect of clouds has been the biggest uncertainty in predictions about global warming. In this new study, researchers from the University of Exeter and the Laboratory of Dynamical Meteorology in ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Circles, slaloms, figure eights, and loop-the-loops – biologists studying the motion of Listeria monocytogenes sensed that these paths were related, but they ...

The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House As we start a new decade, those on the left of politics tend to hold two beliefs close to their hearts. The first is that ...