The Efficient Markets Hypothesis remains a useful benchmark for understanding information processing in financial systems. But as Robert Shiller notes, it is a half-truth. Markets may process some ...

"The expanding-Earth theory had the merit of explaining with a fixist model the evidence of ancient continental connections," ...

Artificial intelligence is evolving into a new phase that more closely resembles human perception and interaction with the ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

Growing up on Washington state’s Mercer Island in the 1960s and ’70s, the writer Caroline Fraser got used to hearing people ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

An astrophysicist says he has been able to rule out one theory that we are all actually living in some sort of simulation.

Breathing patterns among humans are so unique that they can work as an identification tool, scientists report. They propose ...

But nature offers more than just colors, and studies have shown that using all the senses can be good for your health. The ...

Researchers have created a low-lead method to convert CO₂ into solid metal oxalates. Researchers at the University of ...

In the 1960s, it was aerospace engineering; in more recent decades, it has often been computer science. But a new study ...

Earth’s companion has allowed astronomers to define lunar cycles, navigate without technology, and understand celestial ...