Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

Pictures of DNA often look very tidy—the strands of the double helix neatly wind around each other, making it seem like ...

What’s emerged so far is a crowded, fragmented market of space domain awareness (SDA) platforms built on different sensors, catalogs and analytics. The result: overlapping data streams and ...

Sometimes you just want to relax and hear your music or movie’s audio without being encumbered by wearing headphones. That’s especially the case if you’re enjoying your media with friends or family.

In an era when great ideas can sprout from any corner of the world and IT has dramatically reduced the cost of accessing them, it’s now conventional wisdom that virtually no company should innovate on ...