Back when I first started charting the spread of coronavirus I decided not to use a logarithmic scale. I figured that log scales were fine for communicating with other professionals, but most laymen ...

Those skyrocketing curves tell an alarming story. But logarithmic graphs can help reveal when the pandemic begins to slow. By Kenneth Chang The arc of coronavirus cases in Italy is frightening, ...

Sir, In Jude Webber’s article on the Mexico earthquake (“Mexican death toll hits 90 from massive earthquake”, September 10), she reports that quakes are measured on a scale of 0 to 10. More precisely, ...

Log tables, invaluable in science, industry and commerce for 350 years, have been consigned to the scrap heap. But logarithms remain at the core of science, as a wide range of physical phenomena ...