New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

Usually, an ambigram takes me about an hour from the moment of tackling the challenge with crude pencil sketches until the ...

Manuscript in preparation. Kramer, Linus. Metric aspects of euclidean buildings. Lecture Notes from the Winter Meeting 2015 on Bruhat-Tits Buildings at Imperial College, London. Kramer, Linus. Notes ...

Claire Boyte-White is the lead writer for NapkinFinance.com, co-author of I Am Net Worthy, and an Investopedia contributor. Claire's expertise lies in corporate finance & accounting, mutual funds, ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Bridge loans, often called bridge financing or bridging loans, serve as short-term financial ...

Central pattern-generating networks produce the rhythmic motor discharges that underlie many repetitive movements, such as those in locomotion, respiration and feeding 1. Synaptic inhibition is ...

The eugenics movement of the early 1900s ultimately went horribly wrong despite its noble aims. What can we learn from this movement's outcomes in order to avoid the repetition of these mistakes?

Back in 1993, WIRED’s founders published a manifesto offering some guidance. “Our first instruction to our writers: Amaze us … tell us something we've never heard before, in a way we've never seen ...

On Election Day 2012, Colorado voters approved a ballot initiative legalizing the recreational use and sale of cannabis, making the state the first in America to do so. Twenty-three other states would ...

China is accused of locking up hundreds of thousands of Muslims without trial in its western region of Xinjiang. The government denies the claims, saying people willingly attend special “vocational ...