A method for estimating distances in sailing and astrophysics helps explain why riding on buses and boats can make us nauseous. This month’s Insights puzzle was inspired by a new way to determine the ...

The methods of triangulation which we used to measure the width of the lecture theatre can be used for much larger distances. Accurate maps and the elevations of mountains such as Everest are ...

(Phys.org) -- In building network models, researchers have shown it’s possible to show how information moves from a source node to many and sometime all of the nodes in a network using available data ...