Jules Maigret (Benjamin Wainwright) Credit: Photographer Csaba Aknay; Courtesy Playground Entertainment and MASTERPIECE. Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, the invention of former crime reporter turned ...

Humanity’s quest for knowledge is our most striking feature. No other animal asks why or how things work, but humans aren’t content to enjoy the world as it is. We must ask why and tinker to make ...

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers, such ...

In the roaring 1920s, U.S. companies began using contests as a form of marketing to generate fads and trends following the hardships that World War I and the influenza epidemic brought. Americans ...

With the development of renewable energy, energy storage has become one of the key technologies to solve the uncertainty of power generation and the disorder of power consumption and shared energy ...

Several major retailers in the U.S. use a century-old accounting practice known as “the retail inventory method,” which relies on retail prices to estimate inventory, even though it fails to take full ...

Scientists in Japan have demonstrated a new method to create hydrogen fuel without emitting greenhouse gases. But key steps to improve its efficiency remain for it to be commercially viable. When you ...