The latest in the fight over the teaching of evolution in classrooms across America is taking place in Pennsylvania, but local and state school boards in Maryland, Georgia, Ohio, Missouri, South ...

The design of materials guided by computation is expected to lead to the discovery of new materials, reduction of materials development time and cost, and the rapid evolution of new materials into ...

Science fiction sometimes uses quantum concepts to make the impossible seem plausible. But real-world developments will ...

MIT researchers have developed a new framework for designing complex systems that incorporates uncertainty, potentially ...

You may be tempted to organize your small business according to a traditional hierarchical structure. This structure starts at the top with a boss who passes authority down through managers to ...

Scientists have a new theory about the structure of DNA. Two strands of alternating sugar (deoxyribose) and phosphate groups make up the DNA double helix, and the strands were thought to be linked by ...

Henry Mintzberg is a Canadian management theorist who focused on what managers actually do at work. He described 10 everyday roles that managers play, grouped into three types: working with people ...

In response to Mark Hill’s May 6 letter “Intelligent Design deserves a respectful place in education,” it is not uncommon for people such as Mark Hill to believe that evolution can not explain the ...

Fredric Jameson, who died this week at age 90, was one of the last high theorists still standing. A key figure in the development of Marxist criticism, postmodernism and cultural theory, his works ...

In this article, the causal structure of Colvin and Pauly's "Integrated Structural-Marxist" theory of delinquent behavior is explicated, and testable hypotheses are examined by using data from the ...

The goal of an audit is to test the reliability of a company's information, policies, practices and procedures. Government regulations require that certain financial institutions undergo independent ...