Scholars have long debated how widespread literacy was among the Israelites of the seventh century B.C., during the last decades before the ancient kingdom of Judah fell to the Babylonians and its ...
Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...
Acclaimed as a mathematical genius, Ada Lovelace is said to have understood the potential of the first computer blueprints better than their inventor. A serendipitous friendship with the mathematician ...
Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they ...
Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...
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Scientists have mapped the atomic interactions that make nanoscale catalysts so effective at converting propane into propylene. The discovery highlights a stabilizing oxide pattern that could guide ...