In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of ...
Harvard mathematics professor Lauren K. Williams just won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." She's still focused on ...
Sure, everyone knows H2O is water, but do you remember the chemical formula of table salt? The school system used to bombard ...
Sasha Woods is a director of science and policy at the environmental non-profit organization Earthwatch Europe based in Oxford, UK. We are living through a global freshwater crisis: in 2014, humanity ...
The math of even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...