Stratification theories layer the natural world from the inanimate to the animate to the animal to the human. They used to be ...

THE value of block diagrams in geographical and geological instruction cannot be questioned, but many teachers find these difficult to draw, especially on the blackboard, at short notice.

The diagram illustrates the inexorable ... Bjerknes foresaw that “the fundamental scientific study of atmospheric processes ... has to follow a method based upon the laws of mechanics and ...

Victor Ambros receives funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The Conversation Weekly podcast caught up with Victor Ambros from his lab at the UMass Chan Medical School to learn more ...

Therefore, we believe we are observing an ancient slab.” This illustrative diagram shows the ancient subducted "slab" the team imaged. This ancient seafloor slab has a direct impact on the large ...

Far beneath the lush landscape of southern China, a sprawling subterranean laboratory aims to be the world's first to crack a deep scientific enigma. China has emerged as a science powerhouse in ...

Please send suggestions to Scientific American’s Mind Matters editor Daisy Yuhas at [email protected]. This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors ...

Plutonium-227, newly discovered by Chinese scientists, sheds light on the behavior of transuranium isotopes and advances our understanding of nuclear physics, particularly regarding neutron shell ...

David Baker receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Fulbright, FNR Luxembourg, and the Qatar Nation Research Fund. Justin J.W. Powell has ...

Welcome to the Love Lab. Psychologists say that the scientific method — observation, hypothesis, experimentation, analysis and adjustment — should be applied to dating to stop singles from ...