A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

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We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new research project is asking the same question about AI. When you purchase ...

An international team of authors led by Ilka Agricola, professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg, Germany, has investigated fraudulent practices in the publication of research results in ...

Most users don’t clear their browser history as they will always want to find or revisit webpages long forgotten in the chaos of the World Wide Web. For multiple PC users, even with the many ...

High schoolers in the United States last year earned their lowest marks on reading and math in two decades, according to “The Nation’s Report Card,” released on Sept. 9. The test, also known as the ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. One of the first things a developer will be told after they join a new software project is to ...