I woke up in the middle of the night, utterly confused. I had been dreaming—of an equation. I was in a classroom, and on the blackboard, there was a simple equation written in chalk: 0.8 * 0.2 = 0.16.

For those of you who take sandcastle building very seriously, listen up: MIT engineers now say you can trust a very simple equation to calculate the force required to push a shovel -- and any other ...

A new set of simple equations can fast-track the search for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a Nobel-Prize-winning class of ...

New analysis based on simple equations has reduced uncertainty about how clouds will affect future climate change. New analysis based on simple equations has reduced uncertainty about how clouds will ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Power electronic system designers know about natural convection, which starts with the simple statement: Hot air rises. For example, a power ...