The best stock market timing system of four decades ago is still beating a buy-and-hold approach. That’s remarkable for at least two reasons: First, it’s rare for any market timing system to ...

The United States is one of just three countries that "prefers" imperial measurements over the international metric standard. The motivation why has less to do with official policy than you might ...

In the 1966 novel Fantastic Journey, by Isaac Asimov, a miniature submarine and crew travel throughout the human circulatory system in a race against time to save the patient. While the story was ...

The cardiovascular system consists of the heart, blood vessels, and blood. Its primary function is to transport nutrients and oxygen-rich blood to all parts of the body and to carry deoxygenated blood ...

What if you’ve already seen fragments of the future - without realizing it? In this thought experiment grounded in Einstein’s relativity, we unpack how a simple diagram changes our entire ...

Not only do we almost all agree about what a better food system should look like, but we also know most of what it will take to make it a reality. Food is such a big topic that few really grasp the ...

Although winter is coming to a close, cold and flu season is still threatening our immune systems. Staying healthy is a marriage of several simple practices, according to Dr. Roger Seheult, a critical ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known for less ...