For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...
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How a medieval Oxford friar used light and colour to find out what stars and planets are made of
Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.
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Huge cloud of plasma belched out by star 130 light years away
A coronal mass ejection from a distant star has been confirmed for the first time, raising questions about how such events ...
In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day.
A factor is a number which divides into another number, without leaving a remainder. Factors should be whole, positive numbers. Factors always come in pairs. This pair will always multiply together to ...
Most stories in the genre build to a moment of escape. “On the Calculation of Volume” imagines a woman making a life inside ...
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