Singularities frustrate our understanding. But behind every singularity in physics hides a secret door to a new understanding of the world.
Search Results
You searched for: Math
People often divide the world into “us” and “them” then forget about everybody else.
“At that time, it was just a wild idea, […] that instead of just a loss of consciousness, anesthetics may do something to the brain that actually turns pain off.”
Women have made incredible gains into STEM fields, but they continue to face gender biases in the workplace.
Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.
A cute mathematical trick can “rescale” the Universe so that it isn’t actually expanding. But can that “trick” survive all our cosmic tests?
We confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here’s how we know.
Almost 10% of all new jobs created between 2020 and 2030 will unfortunately be some of the lowest paid.
Elastic thinking can reveal the assumptions that hamstring our ability to solve seemingly intractable problems.
Achieving values and pursuing growth is the real secret to a fulfilled life.
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.
If measuring eLearning ROI is so important, why aren’t more organizations doing it?
Short-termism is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it?
American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here’s what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.
If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.
Life finds a way — particularly if it has a moon.
The ancient Greeks were obsessed with geometry, which may have formed the basis of their philosophical cosmology.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
Measurements of the acceleration of the universe don’t agree, stumping physicists working to understand the cosmic past and future. A new proposal seeks to better align these estimates — and is likely testable.
JWST has seen more distant galaxies than any other observatory, ever. But many candidates for “most distant of all” are likely impostors.
Whose responsibility is it to ensure that there is affordable access to employment?
The Field Medal was created to elevate promising mathematicians from underrepresented demographics. But has it followed through on that goal?
Shame is a powerful tool that must be used with care.
There could be variables beyond the ones we’ve identified and know how to measure. But they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness.
Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here’s how they prove Einstein’s relativity.
It’s literally the one and only trick that separates top-notch physicists from crackpots, dropouts, and those who can’t cut the mustard.
If you ask your maps app to find “restaurants that aren’t McDonald’s,” you won’t like the result.
Bitcoin’s creator owns five percent of the entire Bitcoin supply, meaning that he has a larger percent of Bitcoin than the U.S. has of gold.