Just over a week ago, European physicists announced they had measured the strength of gravity on the smallest scale ever.
In a clever tabletop experiment,...
IntroductionClusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies sit at the intersections of giant, crisscrossing filaments of matter that form the tapestry of the cosmos....
IntroductionTime seems linear to us: We remember the past, experience the present and predict the future, moving consecutively from one moment to the next....
Bitcoin, along with other major cryptocurrencies including ethereum and XRP, has surged to a fresh year-to-date high as Tesla billionaire Elon Musk reveals his...
IntroductionIt is a truth of both physics and everyday experience that things fall apart. Ice melts. Buildings crumble. Any object, if you wait long...
Intel will manufacture high-end AI chips for Microsoft, fueling competition in the global semiconductor market amidst geopolitical concerns.
In an effort to use artificial intelligence...
A moment of distraction over the dishes sends Andrew Ferguson on a journey of literary discovery
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IntroductionIn Disney’s 1959 film Donald in Mathmagic Land, Donald Duck, inspired by the narrator’s descriptions of the geometry of billiards, energetically strikes the cue...