From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

Simple interest is paid only on the principal, e.g., a $10,000 investment at 5% yields $500 annually. Compound interest accumulates on both principal and past interest, increasing total returns over ...

Crystal polymorphism is critically important in the fields of pharmaceuticals and materials science. For instance, a metastable polymorph of an active pharmaceutical ingredient may benefit from ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Defining the characteristics of individual leaves is part of tree morphology, ...

You may have heard that you should try to avoid eating too many simple sugars, but what does that mean? What are simple sugars? Are simple sugars carbohydrates? To answer both questions: simple sugars ...

President Biden said former President Carter, who died Sunday, “lived a life measured not by words but by deeds.” In a Sunday night speech from the U.S. Virgin Islands, Biden added that Carter was “a ...

The celebutantes-turned-businesswomen are rebooting the show that provided a blueprint for the past 20 years of reality TV. By Shivani Gonzalez How would two troubled Los Angeles heiresses manage as ...

Do you have a simple way to understand reality? This essay invites you to consider a helpful way to classify the things in the world, called the “1 + 4 + 1” map. Let’s begin by separating what exists ...