The Colorado River was a fault line of near-tectonic political forces by the 1920s, as the seven states within its basin ...

A recent study has mathematically clarified how the presence of crystals and gas bubbles in magma affects the propagation of ...

The new book, Women in the History of Quantum Physics, spotlights the oft-forgotten contributions of women scientists in the field.

Tracking exoplanets via orbital mechanics isn't easy. Plenty of variables could affect how a planet moves around its star, and determining which ones affect any given exoplanet requires a lot of data ...

The classical scientific theories by which we understand the world around us do not hold good at the subatomic level. There, ...

Department of Mathematics and Institute of Systems Science, Research and Postgraduate Support, Durban University of Technology, PO Box 1334, Durban 4000, Republic of South Africa School of Mathematics ...

Quantum physics began in 1900 when the German physicist Max Planck determined the scale of quantum phenomena. In 1905, Albert ...

The result is a clock with a total a total systematic uncertainty of 2.2×10⁻¹⁶ — a precision that means it loses less than a second every 140 million years. This extremely subtle lag is ...

Werner Heisenberg submitted a paper to Zeitschrift für Physik entitled ‘On quantum-theoretical reinterpretation of kinematic and mechanical relationships’, thus giving birth to quantum mechanics. In ...

A polynomial is a type of algebraic equation that involves variables raised to a non-negative power — for example, x² + 5x + ...

Credit: fbatista72 via Getty Images Polynomial equations are a cornerstone of modern science, providing a mathematical basis for celestial mechanics, computer graphics ... variables raised to a ...