By establishing a larger principle for how things shatter, certain energy-intensive tasks could gain an advantage.

Figure 1: Fragmentation via a cold-drawing-induced, propagating, mechanical–geometric instability. Figure 2: Characterization of fragmentation induced by cold-drawing of a PES fibre. Figure 3: ...

The ECB has today released an interesting new metric by which to judge the level of financial integration within the eurozone. Unfortunately it has the somewhat unwieldy name of ‘The Synthetic ...

Fragmentation is often cited as a major challenge for the Linux platform and mobile software ecosystem. The word gets thrown around a lot and tends to be used as a catch-all phrase to describe a wide ...

Local governments in the United States are responsible for many of the services people rely on daily—schools, parks, public ...

Land fragmentation is a significant issue in Pakistan, where agricultural land is divided into smaller and smaller plots over generations. In Punjab, the most agriculturally productive region of ...

When a plate drops or a glass smashes, you're annoyed by the mess and the cost of replacing them. But for some physicists, ...

What edition of Android are you running right now? Google hopes that the answer to that question is at least Lollipop but you’re getting ready for Marshmallow 6.0, the latest version of the mobile ...

Why is it that what’s viewed as healthy competition in one arena is so frequently labeled a “fragmentation problem” in other areas these days? When you go to the store to buy a bottle of laundry ...