From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the ...

Time travel is deterministic and locally free, a paper says —resolving an age-old paradox. This follows research observing ...

Ramanujan's pi-computing machinery exactly mirrors the necessary structure in modern physical theories (LCFTs).

The “2theXtreme” display includes 40 exhibits that show off activities such as snowboarding, competitve cycling, music mixing ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

If Vanderbilt finishes 10–2, the big question in the new twelve-team College Football Playoff isn’t “are they good enough?” It’s “Is there enough room?” Right now, BYU and Utah are both sitting ahead ...

Nothing sinks a golfer’s spirits like their ball zinging back out of the hole. Now, physics and mathematics explain how it happens. The anguish of a “lip out” occurs when a golfer putts a ball, and ...

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