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The Evolving Quest for a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics    Mar 21, 2022

What Is the Langlands Program?    Jun 1, 2022

Top Mathematics Journals - What and How to get published    Jan 27, 2022

Quantum Mechanics Must Be Complex    Jan 24, 2022

Can quantum mechanics explain consciousness?    Nov 24, 2021

IBM creates largest ever superconducting quantum computer    Nov 15, 2021

Predatory publishers' latest scam: bootlegged and rebranded papers    Oct 26, 2021

Evaluating the Role of Scientific Awards    Oct 14, 2021

Pedestrian Physics Walks Away with Two Ig Nobels    Set 13, 2021

The mysterious origins of Universe's biggest black holes    Aug 22, 2021

Physicists innovate to close the global radiotherapy gap - cancer    Jul 30, 2021

Reliability of researcher metric the h-index is in decline    Jul 29, 2021

Stanford astrophysicists report first detection of light from behind a black hole    Jul 28, 2021

Physicists explain how the brain might connect to the quantum real    Jul 27, 2021

Discrete or Continuum? It Matters for Cells    Jul 15, 2021

Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals (predatory publishers)    Jul 12, 2021

The unified Universe    May 28, 2021

Mathematicians Find Long-Sought Building Blocks for Special Polynomials    May 25, 2021

Cicadas incoming: Billions of winged insects emerging in the U.S.    May 17, 2021

A polêmica sobre problema matemático com demonstração 'impenetrável' que quase ninguém consegue verificar    May 16, 2021

The Great Cicada Swarm: What to Know About Brood X    May 7, 2021

How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility    April 29, 2021

Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide during the COVID Pandemic    April 29, 2021

The Secret Mission To Unearth Part Of A 142-Year-Old Experiment    April 23, 2021

Sneaky New Bacteria on the ISS Could Build a Future on Mars    April 5, 2021

The mystery of how big our Universe really is    March 28, 2021

Retraction of Nature paper puts Majorana research on a new path    March 26, 2021

Get ready for Brood X: The once-every-17-years cicada swarm is coming    March 17, 2021

The 'star-fiend' who unlocked the Universe    March 11, 2021

Mathematicians Set Numbers in Motion to Unlock Their Secrets    February 22, 2021

Predictive Analytics: The Next Frontier of Business Intelligence    February 18, 2021

Why free will is beyond physics    Jan 6, 2021

Artificial intelligence solves Schrödinger's equation    Dec 21, 2020

How Germany retains one of the world's strongest research reputations    Nov 25, 2020

Bringing Quantum to Machine Learning    Nov 18, 2020

The hunt for another Earth: a love story    Nov 11, 2020

The Science of Nerdiness -- It's a neurotransmitter thing    Oct 25, 2020

'Quintuple point' material defies 150-year-old thermodynamics rule    Oct 22, 2020

An Infinite Universe of Number Systems    Oct 19, 2020

Toward a perfect single-photon source    Oct 7, 2020

The tiny Swiss town that inspired Nietzsche    Oct 2, 2020

For Math Fans: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Number 42    Sep 21, 2020

The Evolution of Cancer Research    Aug, 2020

Web-based tool estimates foetal radiation dose from CT scans    Jul 30, 2020

Ask me anything: Sabine Hossenfelder    Jul 29, 2020

Resource Dynamics Dictate Diversity    Jul 21, 2020

Erstmals periodischer Radioblitzer entdeckt    Jun 25, 2020

A long-lost type of dark matter may resolve the biggest disagreement in physics    Apr 30, 2020

A Ridiculously Fast New Hyperloop Train Could Soon Take You From Paris to Amsterdam in 90 Minutes    Apr 30, 2020

Olive oil leads to discovery of new universal law of phase transitions    Apr 17, 2020

You Are Not Mostly Empty Space    Apr 16, 2020

You Are Not Mostly Empty Space    Apr 16, 2020

Quantum Approaches to Consciousness    Apr 16, 2020

Europe's Cheops telescope begins study of far-off worlds    Apr 16, 2020

Why Women May Be More Susceptible to Mood Disorders    Apr 14, 2020

On Faith and Futility: A Pediatric Oncologist Meditates on the Death of a Child    Apr 13, 2020

Shocking Research Threatens Our Understanding of Dark Matter    Apr 13, 2020

Remembering Freeman Dyson    Apr 12, 2020

How to Use Regular Expressions (regexes) on Linux    Mar 25, 2020

Best Linux GUIs for every type of user    Mar 24, 2020

Australian Engineers Just Accidentally Solved a 58-Year-Old Quantum Mystery    Mar 15, 2020

MIT's deep learning found an antibiotic for a germ nothing else could kill    Mar 13, 2020

This One Equation, 10² + 11² + 12² = 13² + 14², Takes Pythagoras To A Whole New Level    Mar 06, 2020

A hybrid AI model lets it reason about the world's physics like a child    Mar 06, 2020

The computer pioneer who built modern China    Feb 19, 2020

New Cryptography Method Promising Perfect Secrecy Is Met With Skepticism    Feb 17, 2020

Controversial simulation creates galaxies without using dark matter    Feb 17, 2020

Just a Few Billion Years Left to Go    Feb 17, 2020

Good news: Neural network says 11 asteroids thought to be harmless may hit Earth. Bad news: They are not due to arrive for hundreds of years    Feb 17, 2020

Why Euler's Formula for Primes could disrupt the World    Feb 16, 2020

Chaos & Order: The Keys to Quantum-Proof Encryption    Feb 12, 2020

What's Wrong with Physics    Jan 27, 2020

Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years    Jan 8, 2020

The Simple Truth about Physics    Jan 1, 2020

A Whole Surface of Exceptional Points    Dec 09, 2019

Quantum computers could mark their own homework    Nov 28, 2019

Machine learning stabilizes synchrotron beams    Nov 27, 2019

Sea ice snowscape is surprisingly complex    Nov 26, 2019

Laser combo opens up futuristic terahertz technology    Nov 25, 2019

Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math    Nov 19, 2019

Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars    Nov 11, 2019

Number Theorist Fears All Published Math Is Wrong    Set 26, 2019

What Happens to Tech Workers When Their Skills Become Obsolete?    Set 6, 2019

Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages    July 25, 2019

A brief history to imaginary numbers    June 21, 2019

Against Metrics: How Measuring Performance by Numbers Backfires    June 5, 2019

The Hidden Heroines of Chaos    May 20, 2019

Dead and alive: why it's time to rethink quantum physics    May, 2019

What Is the Mysterious "Global Hum" - and Is It Simply Noise Pollution?    Mar 13, 2019

Book of Lost Books Discovered in Danish Archive    Apr 11, 2019

Susceptibility to Mental Illness May Have Helped Humans Adapt Over the Millennia    Mar 5, 2019

John Baez: The Math That Takes Newton Into the Quantum World    Feb 22, 2019

How a Strange Grid Reveals Hidden Connections Between Simple Numbers    Feb 6, 2019

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff review - we are the pawns    Feb 2, 2019

Keeping Fit: How to Do the Right Exercise for Your Age    January 3, 2019

Extending the Kuramoto Model to Arbitrary Dimensions    January 3, 2019

A Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist Says Most People Don't Really Want to Be Happy    December 21, 2018

Why the Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems    October 18, 2018

Mathematics as thought    October 11, 2018

Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days    September 12, 2018

Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests    August 10, 2018

Physics Needs Philosophy / Philosophy Needs Physics    July 18, 2018

Why some scientists say physics has gone off the rails    June 2, 2018

An Ode to Ugly Physics    May 31, 2018

Bit-level quantum color image encryption scheme with quantum cross-exchange operation and hyper-chaotic system    April 26, 2018

When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party    Apr 4, 2018

Why is M-theory the leading candidade for the theory of everything?    Dec 1, 2017

Professional Romance Novelists Can Write 3,000 Words a Day. Here's How They Do It    Aug 4, 2017

This Emotional Intelligence Test Was So Accurate It Was Creepy    Jun 27, 2017

How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder    Jan 26, 2017

Maverick women writers are upending the book industry and selling millions in the process    Jul 22, 2016

Crowdfunding, goes beyond the reach of traditional funding    Jun 22, 2015

Crowdfunding propels scientific research    Jan 18, 2015

Martin Gardner, puzzle master extraordinaire    Oct 21, 2014

Stop lecturing me    Jul 15, 2014

OIKOS Advice: 20 different stability concepts (in ecology)    May 16, 2012

Heading for success: or how not to title your paper    Sep, 2011

The Majorana mystery    Mar 2, 2010

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