After decades of intense focus on genetics, the biomedical research community is undergoing a major shift, focusing on a new framework called "exposomics." Similar to the way scientists work to map ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Different methods of handling the summing process for the geometric series are shown to give results indicating widely differing significances when carried out in a machine incorporating ...

It was a big year for tech. Cell phones had their moment in the sun, and then just as suddenly fell from grace and began disappearing from classrooms nationwide. In their stead, a revolutionary new ...

I mentioned in Part One, Mr. Peterson, my chemistry teacher in high school, who introduced me to the idea that the way a number is written — how many digits we use — ought to reflect our level of ...

When I took a chemistry class during my junior year at Oakland High School, Mr. Peterson introduced us to a mathematical concept I’d never considered before. Significant digits. He explained that the ...