Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just ...

When oil and gas are pumped from the ground, they come up with briny fluid called “produced water,” many times saltier than the sea and laden with chemicals.

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Not according to a UC San Diego report. Instead, the college is finding that students struggle with even basic elementary ...

The Louisiana Boardwalk sits along the Red River like a retail oasis designed by someone who actually enjoys shopping instead of someone who just tolerates it for the paycheck. This isn’t your typical ...

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of Deadspin, the skeptical, irreverent, hilarious, ...

The standard interpretation of a null state, or empty state, posits it as devoid of structure. This paper introduces a ...

We measure the “warmness” of the dark matter, i.e. the comoving root-mean-square thermal velocity v hrms (1) , with nearly 3000 spiral galaxy rotation curves in the ...