The Earth is often compared to a majestic blue marble, especially by those privileged few who have gazed upon it from orbit. This is due to the prevalence of water on the planet's surface. While water itself is not blue, ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 2, 2014
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The queen is the most powerful piece on the chessboard. Unlike any other (including the king), it can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
Mathematics
Jan 24, 2022
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Hot on the heels of the ground-breaking 'Sum-Of-Three-Cubes' solution for the number 33, a team led by the University of Bristol and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has solved the final piece of the famous 65-year-old ...
Mathematics
Sep 6, 2019
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Students can hide their ignorance and answer questions correctly in an exam without their lack of knowledge being detected by teachers—but only in the quantum world.
Quantum Physics
Jun 23, 2020
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For about a decade now, mathematicians and mathematics educators have been weighing in on a particular debate rooted in school mathematics that shows no signs of abating.
Mathematics
Aug 29, 2022
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A new test to check if a quantum computer is giving correct answers to questions beyond the scope of traditional computing could help the first quantum computer that can outperform a classical computer to be realized.
Quantum Physics
Nov 18, 2019
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(Phys.org)—We live in a world of extremes, where being fervently for or against an issue often becomes the dominant social ideology – until an opposing belief that is equally extreme emerges to challenge the first one, ...
Suppose, a litre of cola costs US$3.15. If you buy one third of a litre of cola, how much would you pay?
Mathematics
Mar 15, 2018
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Which genes control the defining features that make us look as we do? And how do they make it happen?
Evolution
Nov 10, 2021
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What is dark matter made of? It's one of the most perplexing questions of modern astronomy. We know that dark matter is out there, since we can see its obvious gravitational influence on everything from galaxies to the evolution ...
Astronomy
May 20, 2019
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