In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...

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Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very ...

Two nurses had a similar amount of sleep, but one was alert, and the other one was tired. A mathematician came up with an ...