The application of catastrophe theory to high-harmonic generation is creating opportunities for optimizing the spectral intensity of extreme-ultraviolet light and characterizing attosecond pulses, ...

This article offers a short introduction to the present state and some of the main features of the linguistic applications of Catastrophe Theory. Catastrophe-theoretical linguistic and semiotic ...

The landscape of the lower Lachlan area of New South Wales was transformed by the expansion of market pastoralism in the nineteenth century. With the wool boom of the 1870s and 1880s ever larger and ...

RENÉ THOM: The relatively new science of chaos theory has had a huge impact on research in fields as diverse as meteorology, … RENÉ THOM: The relatively new science of chaos theory has had a huge ...

GREAT things were expected from René Thom's catastrophe theory when it first emerged in the 1970s from the arcane deliberations of mathematicians into the everyday world of people who just hope for a ...

Editor’s Note: Jay Lehr, Ph.D., is a leading authority on groundwater hydrology and has served as executive director of the National Association of Groundwater Scientists and Engineers. Lehr is a ...

It’s notoriously difficult to take the temperature of really hot things. Whether it’s the roiling plasma in our Sun, the extreme conditions at the core of planets or the crushing forces at play inside ...