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A team of international scientists co-led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a ...

Where there's water, there are waves. But what if you could bend water waves to your will to move floating objects? Scientists have now developed a technique to merge waves in a water tank to produce ...

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The Schuler period was important for the invention of the gyrocompass: Even Albert Einstein was involved in the development ...

In other words: “Nice try, D-Wave, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.” ...

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The deceptively simple Kakeya conjecture has bedeviled mathematicians for 50 years. A new proof of the conjecture in three ...

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.

The Hechinger Report reports on how a much-touted federal reform effort, and a tribal lawsuit, sought to improve outcomes for ...

Judge Orders Halt on Deportations of Venezuelans Under Wartime Law A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from invoking an obscure wartime law, called the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to ...

At the time, the Dresden-based ct.qmat co-founder described the phenomenon as a "smoke ring" because ... we seamlessly integrate theory and experiment. "Additionally, our network fosters teamwork ...