Scientists have many big questions to tackle about the universe, including how big it actually is. But even the proposed ...

13.8 billion years ago, what we know as our Universe began with the hot Big Bang. It's been expanding and cooling ever since, up through and including the present day. From our point-of-view, we can ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

GEOMETERS are wont to speak (it seems to me) somewhat laxly of “the line at infinity” as if there were only one such line in a plane; in a certain but not in the most obvious sense this is true—viz.

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The Laplace-Stieltjes transform of the distribution of the busy period for the M/G/1 system with infinite waiting room can be obtained by using an argument from branching theory. In the present paper ...

Once upon a time, there were three scientists––a biologist, an engineer, and a chemist. Each of them loved the ocean and liked nothing better than to walk its shores and study its inhabitants. They ...