Richard Feynman once beat an abacus champion at cube roots using nothing but mental approximation. His trick reveals why ...

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Two Chinese academics have won the world's top prize for mathematics for the first time, according to state media. Chinese mathematicians Hong Wang and Yu Deng won alongside John Pardon from the US ...

Maybe you want to change the washer in your kitchen faucet or learn to play the piano. Or maybe you want to learn to control your temper or stop procrastinating. Or maybe you’ve already known how to ...

A mathematician opens her office door to find a small fire. Without panicking, she looks around the room and spots a fire extinguisher. “Ah, a solution exists!” she says, before closing the door and ...

Did you see that Bloomberg report yesterday about the Netflix shows that fall way off in their second season? Our friend Ryan Broderick over at Garbage Day has a good take on what’s going on — and why ...

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During the recent U.S. Senate primary, some Texas Republicans justified voting for the winner, Ken Paxton, whose tenure as Texas attorney general has been marred by scandals, through a familiar and ...

After two centuries of failed attempts, scientists have finally grown dolomite in the lab, cracking a long-standing geological puzzle. They discovered that the mineral’s growth stalls because of tiny ...

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