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Category : Science / Physics and Math

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Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful thumbnail

Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can

Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can...

How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis thumbnail

How a Cup of Tea Laid the

Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that...

A Math Couple Solves a Major Group Theory Problem—After 20 Years of Work thumbnail

A Math Couple Solves a Major Group

Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single,...

Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture thumbnail

Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches...

Can’t Wrap Your Head Around Pi? Here’s a Cool Visual to Help thumbnail

Can’t Wrap Your Head Around Pi? Here’s

Pi is an irrational number, and like some irrational people...

New Proofs Expand the Limits of What Cannot Be Known thumbnail

New Proofs Expand the Limits of What

By proving a broader version of Hilbert’s famous 10th problem,...

Is It Electric or Magnetic? Depends on Where You Stand thumbnail

Is It Electric or Magnetic? Depends on

Physics is weird. Especially when you’re dealing with moving reference...

The Saw-Toothed Function That Broke Calculus

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like...

Did a Rock Hit Your Windshield, or Did Your Windshield Hit a Rock? thumbnail

Did a Rock Hit Your Windshield, or

Either way, it sucks. But at least there’s some fun...

A ‘Teleportation’ Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Is Here thumbnail

A ‘Teleportation’ Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Is

A team at the University of Oxford succeeded in getting...

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