I n science, whether an anomaly is insignificant or the basis for a promising new field of study can boil down to the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

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Retraction data points to better identification of scientific misconduct and the negative impact of the publish-or-perish ...

Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its performance.