A new equation calculates how many fragments of each size will be produced when an object breaks. The principle could help ...

For those of you who take sandcastle building very seriously, listen up: MIT engineers now say you can trust a very simple equation to calculate the force required to push a shovel -- and any other ...

I'm currently editing a short scientific book full of formulas. The author's original files had picture files for equations, so I had to remake all of them in MS Equation Editor. I'm on Word 2003 (not ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti.

Surprisingly, a quintessential equation of quantum mechanics emerges while studying astronomical disks of orbiting material. Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics governing the sometimes-strange ...

Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism and the Euler equation top a poll to find the greatest equations of all time. Robert P Crease discusses the results of his reader survey First among equals – ...

Why is it that particular equations, formulas and expressions become icons, asks Robert P Crease For some people this expression, named after the 18th-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, even ...

The motions of undulating animals and the states of quantum objects can be described using strikingly similar equations. Alexander Cohen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues ...