Occam’s razor is the principle that, all else being equal, simpler explanations should be preferred over more complex ones. This principle is thought to guide human decision-making, but the nature of ...

The speed at which glaciers move changes predictably each year, according to the first-ever global map of how glacier and ice sheet speeds vary with the seasons. Knowing this yearly rhythm could help ...

Why does lead behave so differently from every other atomic nucleus when struck by electrons? A team of physicists at ...

Abstract: Existing approaches for underwater autonomous target recognition (UATR) often suffer from limited accuracy and robustness due to complex underwater environments, noise interference during ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Graphene is stronger than steel ...

Five layers of carbon can still surprise physics. When researchers cooled a precisely stacked film of graphene to near absolute zero, they watched electrons glide around its perimeter as if they ...

Nearly six months into the year, the U.S. housing market is at a breaking point as inventory continues surging while sales dwindle in the face of chronically low affordability and growing economic ...

The demand for immersive, realistic graphics in mobile gaming and AR or VR is pushing the limits of mobile hardware. Achieving lifelike simulations of fluids, cloth, and other materials historically ...

The French scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace crisply articulated his expectation that the universe was fully knowable in 1814, asserting that a sufficiently clever “demon” could predict the entire future ...

WE HAVE LIVE TEAM COVERAGE FOR YOU THIS NOON HOUR. SAM CARTER IS GIVING US A LOOK AT HOW THE HIGH WATER IS IMPACTING THE METRO. BUT FIRST, WE WANT TO START OFF WITH METEOROLOGIST MO ROSE WITH A LOOK ...