David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

Video by Sarah Joseph and Jon Betz, Smithsonian Digital Studio; Text by Megan Gambino Benjamin Franklin invented swim flippers when he was 12 years old. Frank Epperson, age 11, conceived of the ...

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A study of adaptive immunity in sea lampreys — a type of jawless vertebrate from which jawed vertebrates diverged around 500 million years ago — has shown the evolution of a common solution to the ...

It’s the only way to make sound trade-off decisions and choose the right practices. by Gary P. Pisano Despite massive investments of management time and money, innovation remains a frustrating pursuit ...