When in throws of misery caused by the various petty catastrophes that can arise in the lives of first-world children, our parents used to tell us, “Count your blessings. If you can’t think of any, ...

An idea discarded more than a century ago, conceived by Lord Kelvin when he imagined atoms as knots in the ether, has resurfaced at the heart of a new theory that seeks to explain why the universe is ...

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to come up with a name for a place that is invulnerable to natural disasters of ...

Abstract: The attenuation characteristics of subsurface media cause amplitude attenuation and phase dispersion in seismic waves. Ignoring these effects in conventional least-squares reverse time ...