Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

You’re reading Fault Lines, Jay Caspian Kang’s weekly column on politics and the media. If you never have to explain yourself, you can’t really ever be wrong. In recent decades, few things have been ...

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. Amanda Jackson has expertise in personal finance, investing, and social services. She is a ...

Chances are, you know someone with a killer ghost story. You might even believe you've encountered a ghost yourself. However, considering there's no scientific evidence that ghosts exist, why do some ...

If you’ve ever hung around scientists, you’ve most likely at some point heard one of them say “the best explanation is the simplest one.” But is it? From the behavior of ants to the occurrence of ...

The year is 1950. Physicist Enrico Fermi is eating lunch with a few colleagues outside Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. His shirt ripples in a hot desert wind. He looks up at the sky and ...

Microsoft Excel’s Data Analysis Toolpak is an invaluable add-in for those who require complex statistical or engineering analyses. This powerful feature allows users to execute a variety of data ...

In 1773, German zoologist J.A.E. Goeze looked through a microscope at a sample of water and was surprised to discover a tiny, eight-legged, slow-moving animal. Its body resembled a shriveled, shrunken ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

The BBC’s analysis editor shares his tips on how to communicate with clarity and confidence Most of us are not subject to the demands made on TV news journalists such as Ros Atkins. They must, in just ...