For nearly eight decades, the U.S. innovation ecosystem has been underpinned by a deliberately decentralized model of federal research support. Rooted in the vision laid out by Vannevar Bush in ...

A new law hands hemp distribution to the same powerful middlemen who dominate liquor sales and block out-of-state suppliers.

The scientific community's search for patterns in complex phenomena has led to an overenthusiastic application of mathematical models, with "Power Law" relationships emerging as the model du jour in ...

The Bitcoin power law — a mathematical model that suggests continued growth in the price of Bitcoin over time — has become the subject of fierce debate, with critics slamming it as “deeply flawed” and ...