If you know your U.S. history, there have been several attempts to adopt the metric system, all to no avail. It's the universal standard for most of the world and way more intuitive, yet the chances ...

Non-homogeneous metric measure spaces provide a versatile framework for extending classical harmonic analysis to settings where the underlying measure does not satisfy the usual doubling property.

Investors favor companies that “skimp” on R&D, Ashley Vance recently reported in BloombergBusinessweek. You shouldn’t be shocked. Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has warned ...

Yale School of Medicine Researchers have developed a new weight loss metric geared towards veterans in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Developed as an alternative to the Body ...

This planet of 8 billion people is bumping up against its ecological limits, and researchers are trying to quantify the effect of human activity on these finite resources. Some keep tallies of how ...

If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. IBM created the Quantum Volume metric to measure the power of quantum computers. Quantum Computers have the potential to be vastly more powerful than ...

A national nonprofit that runs an after-school program in seven U.S. cities is shaking things up in the field through its unique youth-development model. The All Stars Project (ASP) is also working to ...

As presidential candidates attempt to win the Latino vote, the labor vote and the women's vote, Lincoln Chafee, the ex-governor and senator from Rhode Island, seems to be going for the pro-metric vote ...