A method for estimating distances in sailing and astrophysics helps explain why riding on buses and boats can make us nauseous. This month’s Insights puzzle was inspired by a new way to determine the ...

One of the “game changing” pieces of scientific news in 2017 concerns the collision of two neutron stars about 130 million light-years away, first detected on August 17. One reason astronomers and ...

The methods of triangulation which we used to measure the width of the lecture theatre can be used for much larger distances. Accurate maps and the elevations of mountains such as Everest are ...

(Phys.org) -- In building network models, researchers have shown it’s possible to show how information moves from a source node to many and sometime all of the nodes in a network using available data ...

Methods of data collection: Having a clear awareness of the assumptions built into each method is key to combining approaches in ways that can produce insight. Exploring a person’s lived experiences, ...