The evolution of total genome size has remained an enigma in genetics for more than half a century. Recent insights from large-scale genome-sequencing projects are shedding new light on the nature, ...

A Reddit post has helped to put the true size of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos—best known as the target of NASA's DART mission on September 27—into perspective by comparing it to a human. Dimorphos ...

The phrase "economies of scale" refers to the benefits experienced by many large firms because of their size. The unit costs incurred by the firms tends to fall as they expand. In some cases, they can ...

The economies of scale It’s not just the laws of physics that dictate size: sometimes more mundane practicalities, such as oil tankers becoming too large to fit through canals, can bring growth to a ...

Even if I heard that "the size of the white blood cell is about 30 μm" and "the diameter of the earth is about 10 2742 km", since it is not actually seen by the eye, it is hard to imagine the size by ...

For decades, packaged seafood production was considered to be a quintessential scale business (pardon the pun). The seafood industry believed itself to be engaged in can making and canning, ...

Think about a map of the world. The image you're picturing will most likely resemble the Mercator projection—a 2D representation of the globe created in the 1500s which most maps you commonly come ...