Phonons are sound particles or quantized vibrations of atoms in solid materials. The Debye model, a theory introduced by ...

The researchers discovered that this separation proves remarkably clean. In a preprint paper released in late October, they ...

Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s future climate, we still don’t really know what’s coming. Some places are warming with more ferocity than expected. Extreme events are taking ...

Synchronization abounds in nature: from the flashing lights of fireflies to the movement of fish wriggling through the ocean, biological systems are often in rhythmic movement with each other.

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

For many tasks in corporate America, it’s not the biggest and smartest AI models, but the smaller, more simplistic ones that are winning the day.

Structural models of default are widely used to analyze corporate bond spreads, but have generally been unable to explain why risk premiums are as high as they are. This credit spread puzzle can be ...

A new laboratory mouse model could help scientists to understand why rheumatoid arthritis strikes women about three times as frequently as men. The lack of a lab model has hindered research into the ...