Sometimes you need a break; the chance to get away from everyday cares and complications and lose yourself for an hour or two. In other words, to pick up a good book - your escape hatch to another ...

As President Barack Obama rightly noted in one of his first directives, his "highest priority is to keep the American people safe."[1] Addressing homeland security challenges effectively requires ...

To a nonmathematician, having the letter "i" represent a number that does not quite exist and is "imaginary" can be hard to wrap your head around. If you open your mind to this way of thinking, ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

Fire assay analysis offers a highly accurate means of determining the contents of gold, silver and the platinum group metals in a range of materials, for example, slurries and ores. It is well suited ...

Intravascular imaging—whether that’s with IVUS or OCT—improves outcomes across various types of complex coronary lesions when used to guide PCI with drug-eluting stents, a network meta-analysis ...