"Glass" has a unique and distinct meaning in physics—one that refers not just to the transparent material we associate with window glass. Instead, it refers to any system that looks solid but is not ...

Dolbear’s Law reveals how the snowy tree cricket can act as a natural thermometer. By counting chirps, you can estimate ...

Why doesn’t an elephant use 1,000 times more energy than a mouse? Kleiber’s Law states that metabolism scales to body size at the three-quarter power.

A good example of a near-monopoly from recent history is the De Beers Group, perhaps the best-known diamond mining, ...