Can the principles of topology help improve the world’s slums?
According to the United Nations (UN), nearly 1 billion of the 8 billion people in the world live in slums…
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According to the United Nations (UN), nearly 1 billion of the 8 billion people in the world live in slums…
Some of the smallest, most useful machines known to science are the biological molecules that keep living things living. The…
On January 9, 2018, a trio of federal judges made history when they ruled that the boundaries of North Carolina’s…
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The fourth book of Euclid’s Elements, a 2,300-year-old geometry text, includes directions for constructing a 15-sided polygon inside a circle. The first…
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In his 1944 book What is Life?, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger argued that organisms stay alive precisely by staving off…
Credit: NASA The presence of water isn’t the only Mars mystery scientists are keen to probe. Another centers around a…
On February 22, festival-goers at Melbourne’s dusk-to-dawn White Night celebration lined up in droves outside the State Library of Victoria…
J. Herbert Waite was a graduate student in biochemistry in the 1970s when he began to wonder how mussels cling…