The opening lines of the great Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms condense its complex and spectacular stories into a coherent pattern, that is, power blocs divide and unite ...

The Swiss Federal Administrative Court has dismissed Parfums Christian Dior’s appeal against a decision of the Federal Institute of Intellectual Property in which the latter had refused, in part, to ...

Diverging and converging patterns forming on the surface of solidifying liquid metals resemble plotlines in a complex historical novel, in a new international study. The cyclic patterns observed are ...