In the spring of 1975, about the same time I was failing seventh grade math at Glenridge Junior High School in Winter Park, Fla., communist soldiers were making their final push into Saigon. By April ...

Slashdot had a small post about this yesterday but I've spoken with one of the researchers about it so thought I'd add a little more detail. A group of Israeli and Belgian researchers found a ...

The seemingly ordinary phenome-non of cracks spreading has always been something of a mystery to scientists. “People assume everything’s known about it, but it’s actually very complicated,” says ...