The Simulmatics Corporation opened for business on February 18, 1959, in an office rented by Edward L. Greenfield, the company’s thirty-one-year-old president, on an upper floor of a building at the ...

Ergodicity (or lack thereof) plays a major role in the relaxation of quantum systems to equilibrium, yet the search of experimentally accessible quantities acting as its signatures is still ongoing.

Increase your chances of success with innovation test-drives. by Stefan Thomke and Jim Manzi Soon after Ron Johnson left Apple to become the CEO of J.C. Penney, in 2011, his team implemented a bold ...

Molecular dynamics is a method that uses Newton’s equations of motion to computationally simulate the time evolution of a set of interacting atoms. Such techniques are dependent on a description of ...

Truly breakthrough ideas rarely hatch overnight. Consider, for example, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, which had a protracted evolution of its own. Darwin spent decades reading scientific ...

The lithium-ion battery in your phone might look like a solid chunk of energy-producing plastic at first glance, but if you were to bust it open and take a closer look, you'd see there's also some ...