This is the debut of our new weekly audiobook column, The Listener. Every Thursday, Laura Miller or another top critic will recommend a great new title. The Listener is sponsored by Audible. Every ...

If slippery slopes are paved with good intentions, we now have the Transportation Department to thank for giving travel agents something new to slide around on. Let's say you're a travel agent and you ...

The prediction of the angle of repose for raised mounds of dry cohesive granular material is a long-standing problem in the natural sciences and in industry. Using numerical (particle-based) ...