Describing the motion of three or more bodies under the influence of gravity is one of the toughest problems in astronomy. The report of solutions to a large subclass of the four-body problem is truly ...

The world is on fire. The flames are hard to see, because we hide them so well. But you can hear them — in the whine of jet engines as planes streak across the sky, in the rumble of power plants as ...

In his popular book on creative problem solving, Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas, James Adams (2001) follows the nine-dot problem through several increasing challenges. Referring to ...

Last semester, I got a taste of my pre-med roommate’s academic life: Every week, I spent a good chunk of my time working on assignments for IAPA 1401: “Economic Development in Latin America.” ...

March 20, 2017 — At the COP 21 climate change convention in Paris at the end of 2015, leaders from 194 nations agreed to pursue actions that will cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep global ...

For the past decade Seattle has been growing—fast. Between 2010 and 2020 its population swelled by almost a quarter. Growth is generally good for cities, but it is often accompanied by a dreaded ...