Ariel Procaccia has thought a lot about how to cut cake over the last 15 years. That’s partly because the Harvard computer scientist has three children who among them have celebrated more than two dozen birthdays. He knows what it’s…
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NASA’s Oxygen-Generating Experiment MOXIE Completes Mars Mission
Riding with the Perseverance rover, the instrument has proved to be a viable technology for astronauts on Mars to produce oxygen for fuel and breathing.
Riding with the Perseverance rover, the instrument has proved to be a viable technology for…
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NASA, Partners Study Ancient Life in Australia to Inform Mars Search
NASA’s Mars Exploration Program leaders joined their counterparts from the Australian Space Agency, ESA, and the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and CSIRO on a field expedition to visit some of the oldest convincing evidence of life on…
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A “Jupiter” Hotter than the Sun – Space & Physics | Weizmann Wonder Wander
The search for exoplanets – planets that orbit stars located beyond the borders of our solar system – is a hot topic in astrophysics. Of the various types of exoplanets, one is hot in the literal sense: hot Jupiters, a class of exoplanets…
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Extreme cooling caused extinction of early humans in Europe
Study led by the University College London (UCL) suggests that an extreme cooling period approximately 1.1 million years ago likely contributed to the extinction of early human populations in Europe.
Based on palaeoclimate evidence, the…
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Watch NASA Engineers Put a Mars Lander’s Legs to the Test
Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on the Red Planet.
Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on the Red Planet.
NASA’s Perseverance rover…
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Freeman Hrabowski encourages students to “hold fast to dreams” and take time for laughter | MIT News
A group of more than 50 individuals recently had the pleasure of sitting down for an informal chat at MIT with distinguished educator, author, and mathematician Freeman Hrabowski. The group was predominantly composed of…
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How geometry solves architectural problems for bees and wasps
Honeybees and yellow jackets don’t look much like mathematicians — for one thing, they’re smaller. But collectively, the insects can solve a common architectural conundrum using a geometric solution that they evolved independently…
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A 407-million-year-old plant’s leaves skipped the usual Fibonacci spirals
An unusual arrangement of leaves in a 407-million-year-old fossilized plant is complicating scientists’ understanding of plant evolution.
Most land plants living today have spiral patterns involving the famous Fibonacci sequence of…
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How to stop quantum computers from breaking the internet’s encryption
Keeping secrets is hard. Kids know it. Celebrities know it. National security experts know it, too.
And it’s about to get even harder.
There’s always someone who wants to get at the juicy details we’d rather keep hidden. Yet…
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