Almost 400 years ago, in "The Assayer," Galileo wrote: "Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe … [But the book] is written in the language of mathematics." He was much more than an astronomer, and this can ...
Mathematics
Apr 11, 2022
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An amazing construction method for curved structures was developed at TU Wien (Vienna): With a flick of the wrist, flat grids become a 3-D shape.
Mathematics
Aug 24, 2020
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For anyone who has ever wished there were more hours in the day, geoscientists have some good news: Days on Earth are getting longer.
Earth Sciences
Jun 4, 2018
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An international team of scientists, including a professor of chemistry from the University of Bristol, has worked out a way to improve energy storage devices called supercapacitors, by designing a new class of detergents ...
Materials Science
Aug 12, 2019
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MIT physicists are reigniting the possibility, which they previously had snuffed out, that a bright burst of gamma rays at the center of our galaxy may be the result of dark matter after all.
General Physics
Dec 12, 2019
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The 'myth' of language history: languages do not share a single history but different components evolve along different trajectories and at different rates.A large-scale study of Pacific languages reveals that forces driving ...
Social Sciences
Oct 2, 2017
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Males of a species evolving traits for sexual conflict can cause problems for females, and, ultimately, the whole population.
Evolution
Mar 3, 2023
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Quick—if you had to guess, what would you think is most likely to end all life on Earth: a meteor strike, climate change or a solar flare? (Choose carefully.)
Mathematics
Nov 18, 2021
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For most of human history our understanding of how planets form and evolve was based on the eight (or nine) planets in our solar system. But over the last 25 years, the discovery of more than 4,000 exoplanets, or planets ...
Astronomy
Jun 22, 2020
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Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have properties not found in naturally occurring materials, and they are best known as materials for invisibility cloaks often featured in sci-fi novels or games. By precisely ...
General Physics
Jul 16, 2019
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