Planets that exist in the solar system have a geometric series relationship with the distance of adjacent planets if they are arranged in order from the sun closest to the sun, the ratio falling ...

Two hundred years ago, Missouri was rocked by an earthquake so severe it made the Mississippi River flow backward and set off church bells in Boston more than 1,000 miles away. These details help ...

Log tables, invaluable in science, industry and commerce for 350 years, have been consigned to the scrap heap. But logarithms remain at the core of science, as a wide range of physical phenomena ...

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 ...

Odds are you haven't used logarithms since your teacher introduced them to you in high school mathematics, if you can remember back that far. But for investors who count on price charts to gauge stock ...

Sir, In Jude Webber’s article on the Mexico earthquake (“Mexican death toll hits 90 from massive earthquake”, September 10), she reports that quakes are measured on a scale of 0 to 10. More precisely, ...

Back when I first started charting the spread of coronavirus I decided not to use a logarithmic scale. I figured that log scales were fine for communicating with other professionals, but most laymen ...

A logarithm is a mathematical operation that determines how many times a certain number, called the base, is multiplied by itself to reach another number. Because logarithms relate geometric ...

On July 6th, sports fans like me tuned in to the NBA summer league to watch the debut of Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett, two highly anticipated rookies. I never expected the ESPN commentators to do ...

The first practical scale for measuring earthquakes was developed by geologist Charles Richter at the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s, and the scale that most scientists use today ...