Rather than helping each other out when they're attacked, plants may have to eavesdrop on each other to know when to launch their own defenses.

However, supporting their neighbors doesn't make sense from an evolutionary perspective as plants are constantly competing with each other for sunlight and nutrients. For a study published Jan. 21 ...

Also on display are tomes by Sayyed Qotb, a theoretician behind the Muslim Brotherhood who inspired its radicalization. “All these books were prohibited. We sold them in secret, just to those wh ...

“Being a theoretician, I couldn't help but wonder if a simple underlying model might tidy up the canon,” Tregillis said. “Like any physicist, I started with back-of-the-envelope ...

Although fans of A Song of Ice and Fire might still be hankering for the long-delayed next book in the series, bestselling ...

"Being a theoretician, I couldn't help but wonder if a simple underlying model might tidy up the canon." The formula he derived is a Lagrangian formulation, which considers the different ways a ...