The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

James W. Dearing ([email protected]) is a professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University, in East Lansing. Jeffrey G. Cox is a research associate in the Department of ...

Statistical physics and thermodynamics provide a framework for relating the behaviour of microscopic particles to the macroscopic properties of a system. Thermodynamics casts these macroscopic, or ...

It was a hundred years ago this November, and Albert Einstein was enjoying a rare moment of contentment. Days earlier, on November 25, 1915, he had taken to the stage at the Prussian Academy of ...

The healthcare industry in Texas continues to expand. As the population ages, the need for medical services grows. Increasing medical services means higher demand for medical billers and coders who ...