For Jifeng Zhang, research adviser for bioproduct pharmaceutical development at Eli Lilly & Co., the solvation of ions in water has decidedly practical implications. The topic may appear arcane and ...

It is a matter of contention whether it is possible to provide a philosophically convincing general explanatory framework for the biological sciences which is also of scientific value. The authors of ...

Western theoretical frameworks are often ill-suited for China studies, according to Chinese academics who called instead for research that was grounded in the country's specific context. The case for ...

Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing and Huazhong University of Science and Technology have conducted a theoretical analysis demonstrating how a "topological quantum battery"—an ...

Data Assimilation (DA) is an important mathematical method for predicting turbulent flows for weather forecasting. However, the origins of the critical length scale, a crucial parameter in this method ...

Artificial intelligence researchers from Facebook Inc., Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have teamed up to publish a new manuscript that they say offers a theoretical ...

Models that combine seed demography and forest dynamics to predict seed densities in forest patches of different disturbance ages are proposed. Two models are derived from a generalized Lefkovitch ...