The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

Simplex Infrastructures Limited is an India-based civil engineering and construction contracting company. The Company is engaged in designing, engineering and construction for various projects such as ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of ...

Paying off debts is one of the most important steps in improving your financial life. How you approach it, though, comes down to your personality. If you're someone who needs a quick win right off the ...

When you are doing division, it's helpful to use a written method. This can be especially useful if the numbers get too big to calculate in your head. If the number you are dividing by (this is called ...

An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...