After all, many countries pursue, for example, reforms to their tax and regulatory systems as the economy becomes more ...

When the Skipinnish Oak, a magnificent 400-year-old tree that stands amid a spruce plantation in Lochaber, was announced as ...

Joseph-Louis Lagrange didn’t discover any forces or laws of nature, but every physicist knows his name. He showed that you ...

Usually, the two kinds of development — institutional and economic — occur simultaneously, making it difficult to distinguish ...

The legendary Emerald Tablet of Thoth is said to be a tablet of emerald or green stone inscribed with the secrets of the universe.

Dark matter makes up 85% of the stuff in the cosmos, but scientists have no idea what it is. On Dark Matter Day (Oct. 31), ...

Five years ago today my family took a weekend road trip to Madison, Wisconsin for my niece’s wedding. Well, we didn’t get to attend the actual wedding (a small modern affair), but we enjoyed the ...

Newell Travel Center in Newton has gotten new management and a new name for its truck stop restaurant. Travis Heying The Wichita Eagle The saga of the longtime truck stop restaurant that closed in ...

Scientists are using laser-based tracking and gravity data to improve how we monitor both satellites and space debris. By blending these methods, they can now predict orbits more precisely and gather ...

In an interview with The Eagle in September, Sowles said he’d moved from Oklahoma to Newton with his wife for a fresh start and that, one day, he stopped by the truck stop and discovered that ...