Why do some employees do better than others? According to goal-setting theory, one reason is that they have better, clearer goals. These goals guide their behavior towards better workplace output.

Quantum field theory marries the ideas of other quantum theories to depict all particles as “excitations” that arise in underlying fields. The British physicist Paul Dirac started the ball rolling in ...

This is the second piece in a series on the search for new physics at CERN. This might be a very big deal. The Standard Model, which has withstood all experimental challenges for forty years, is our ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract I analyse the conceptual and mathematical foundations of Lagrangian quantum field theory (QFT) (that is, the 'naive' (QFT) used in mainstream ...

Crystal field theory is a theory that describes the breaking of the degeneracy of electronic orbitals (that is, their energy levels are not longer identical) that occurs in transition metal ...

Three decades ago, a British documentary series named Connections aired, which showed viewers how various scientific achievements and discoveries were really interrelated, no matter how disparate they ...