For decades, scientists trying to build better catalysts have relied on a single guiding principle: there is one sweet spot, ...

In a culture obsessed with productivity, we’re told that the answer is to become more efficient. But what if the real problem isn't a lack of time, but a lack of connection?

When I arrived at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the prairie suburbs west of Chicago to begin my Ph.D., the mood among many physicists there still carried a quiet sadness.

A research group led by Satoshi Ide from the University of Tokyo has demonstrated that classic earthquake generation theory does not hold in areas where the angle at which a tectonic plate dips under ...