Given the current state of practice and visions for the future (including AI), certain practices should be reevaluated. This ...

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Far below the waves of the Pacific Ocean, cameras on a research vessel recently swept across something that looked impossible ...

As we call time on the first quarter of the 21st century, I thought it might be a good opportunity to look back at some of ...

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Abstract: The effectiveness of vibration damping in rectangular plates depends not only on the control strategy but also on the geometric layout of the actuators. This study proposes a ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved. Imagine you’re holding two equal-size dice. Is it possible to bore a tunnel through one die that’s ...

Concept design for a rectangular space telescope, modeled after the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional infrared space observatory, and the James Webb Space ...

Imagine a mathematical lens so powerful it could bridge the realms of particle physics and cosmology in a way that redefines how we perceive the universe’s architecture, offering a path toward the ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...