Financial firepower is of course only one measure of the effectiveness of our multinational institutions, but it is an important one given the world we live in. The resources available to the IMF ...

These short anomaly-detection puzzles are designed to illustrate how reasoning often depends on identifying inconsistencies ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) have developed a technique for interrogating molecules ...

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

A study published in Nature Physics provides new molecular-level evidence from simulations that liquid water is not a single uniform substance, but a constantly shifting mixture of two distinct ...

If, as novelist-philosopher Samuel Butler wrote in 1878, “a hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg”, then a galaxy may only be a black hole’s way of making another black hole. To put it ...

Kennedy says Spielberg and Ford resisted George Lucas’ alien-heavy idea for ‘Crystal Skull,’ arguing their lack of full buy-in is why the film remains the weakest of Spielberg’s four Indy movies. Now, ...

The following is a guest piece written by Alison Steinlauf Anziska, senior vice president of Marketing at Edmunds. Opinions are the author’s own. Marketing attracts the most creative minds, but even ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...