Understanding is often defined as the ability to form mental models of the world, reason about cause and effect, and predict ...

For just over a decade, physicists have been studying a strange phenomenon in the quantum world. At very small scales, it seems that the temporal order of different events may not always be well ...

Quantum space and time Physicists have developed no-go theorems that limit quantum processes in space–time causality. (Courtesy: iStock/piranka) Physicists have developed a new theoretical framework ...

Economist Daron Acemoglu and his co-authors recently won the economics Nobel Prize for their work on institutions. Interestingly, there is a critique of Acemoglu’s work about which not many people k ...

The following is a summary of “How likely is it that a virus or bacteria is causing a patient’s symptoms? A new approach to interpret the outcome from multi-pathogen PCR,” published in the January ...