Science, Math, Computers and TechnologyHigh school students may have just discovered an 'impossible' proof to the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem "Two high school seniors have presented their proof of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry - which mathematicians thought to be impossible - at an American Mathematical Society meeting." By Sascha Pare (livescience.com) (Image credit: YouTube screenshot from WWL-TV)
Stephen Hawking's famous black hole paradox may finally have a solution "The 'Hawking radiation' emitted by black holes may be able to carry information after all, a new solution to Stephen Hawking's famous paradox suggests." By Robert Lea (livescience.com) (Image credit: NASA)
Gordon Moore, One of Silicon Valley's Founding Fathers, Dies at 94 "Moore was the co-founder of Intel, and most famous for his observation known as Moore's Law." By Logan Plant (ign.com) (screenshot)
The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy "Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics." Patrick Honner (quantamagazine.org) photo: splashlearn.com
Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat "Aperiodic tiling, in which shapes can fit together to create infinite patterns that never repeat, has fascinated mathematicians for decades, but until now no one knew if it could be done with just one shape." By Matthew Sparkes (newscientist.com) David Smith, Joseph Myers, Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Craig S. Kaplan
What causes people to 'choke' under pressure? "People who "choke" under pressure underperform in high-stakes situations out of stress and worry. But what causes this phenomenon?" By Anna Gora (livescience.com) (Image credit: Paul Bradbury via Getty Images)
Is There Math Beyond the Equal Sign? "Can mathematics handle things that are essentially the same without being exactly equal? Category theorist Eugenia Cheng and host Steven Strogatz discuss the power and pleasures of abstraction." Steven Strogatz (quantamagazine.org) image: sciencetrends.com
Scientific journal reveals Biden endorsement caused people to 'lose confidence' in scientists "Nature, the British scientific journal endorsed Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election." By Lindsay Kornick (foxnews.com) (Image credit: Getty Images)
Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests "Could an alien mothership be hovering around the solar system, sending out tiny probes to explore planets? According to a Harvard scientist and a Pentagon official, it’s possible." By Hannah Osborne (livescience.com) (Image credit: Marko Aliaksandr via Shutterstock)
Time Can Do Tricks: Why Children and Adults Experience Time Differently "Researchers at Eötvös Loránd University have investigated whether the perception of time changes with age, and if so, how, and why we perceive the passage of time differently." By Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) (scitechdaily.com) Image Credit: emailanalytics.com
The World’s Simplest Theorem Shows That 8,000 People Globally Have the Same Number of Hairs on Their Head "Hairiness is the perfect way to demonstrate the math underlying the “pigeonhole principle,” first conceived in 1622" By Manon Bischoff (scientificamerican.com) Credit: Sviatlana Lazarenka/Getty Images
New Perspective on the Fundamental Structure of the Universe "The universe is peppered with galaxies, which, on large scales, exhibit a filamentary pattern, referred to as the cosmic web." By Institute for Advanced Study (scitechdaily.com) Credit: Chandra
Da Vinci's mother was an enslaved teenager trafficked to Italy, new documents suggest "A new collection of documents found within the State Archives of Florence suggests that da Vinci's mother was an enslaved girl kidnapped from the Caucasus." By Ben Turner (livescience.com) (Image credit: Victor Ovies Arenas)
The Universe is a hologram: Stephen Hawking's final theory, explained by his closest collaborator "On the fifth anniversary of Stephen Hawking's death, close friend and colleague Thomas Hertog unpacks the trailblazing physicist's thoughts on the Big Bang's origins." By Prof Thomas Hertog (sciencefocus.com) Photo: Thomas Hertog
10 discoveries that prove Einstein was right about the universe - And 1 that proves him wrong "Albert Einstein's theories of relativity have been proven to be true time and again in the more than 100 years following their publication." By Brandon Specktor (livescience.com) (Image credit: Shutterstock)
'Time Reflections' Finally Observed by Physicists After Decades of Searching "Researchers from the City University of New York's Advanced Science Research Center (CUNY ASRC) have turned the theory of 'time reflections' into practice, providing the first experimental evidence of its manipulation across the electromagnetic spectrum." By Mike McRae (sciencealert.com) (Andrea Alu)
NASA Pi Day Challenge: Celebrate the Mathematical Marvel With Stellar Math Problems "Pi Day is a day for people to celebrate and appreciate the importance of pi in our lives, and is often marked by various events and activities such as pie-eating contests." By Jet Propulsion Laboratory (scitechdaily.com)
Simple Math Predicts Electrical Activity in The Brain, Study Shows "After analyzing the data, we found evidence supporting the diffusive flow hypothesis." By Caio Seguin & Andrew Zalesky (sciencealert.com) (Whitehoune/Canva Pro)
A new study describes how selfishness can lead to fairness "Physicists have verified a fifty-year-old hypothesis that explains the formation of herds as a result of selfish behavior." By University of Konstanz (scitechdaily.com) photo: arapahoelibraries.org
New Proof Distinguishes Mysterious and Powerful ‘Modular Forms’ "Using “refreshingly old” tools, mathematicians resolved a 50-year-old conjecture about how to categorize important functions called modular forms, with consequences for number theory and theoretical physics." Jordana Cepelewicz (quantamagazine.org) Image by David Lowry-Duda cantorsparadise.com
Room-Temperature Superconductor Discovery Meets With Resistance "A paper in Nature reports the discovery of a superconductor that operates at room temperatures and near-room pressures. The claim has divided the research community." Charlie Wood, Zack Savitsky (quantamagazine.org) photo: web.physics.ucsb.edu
The Most Boring Number in the World Is "That prime numbers and powers of 2 fascinate many people comes as no surprise. In fact, all numbers split into two camps: interesting and boring." By Manon Bischoff (scientificamerican.com) Credit: Philippe Guglielmetti/Wikimedia
Astrology’s biggest 2023 claim debunked: Saturn isn’t moving into Pisces. It’s not even close "The news is awash with news that Saturn is moving into Pisces, after spending two-and-a-half years in the constellation Aquarius." Holly Spanner (sciencefocus.com) (Image Credit not Found)
Scientists Found an Entirely New Way of Measuring Time "Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between 'then' and 'now.'" Mike McRae (sciencealert.com) (Loren Zemlicka/Moment/Getty Images)
Researchers Discover That Immune System Drug Can Significantly Reduce Alcohol Consumption "Researchers at Scripps Research discovered that apremilast (Otezla®) can reduce alcohol consumption by over 50% in individuals with severe alcohol use disorder." By Scripps Research Institute (Image Credit not Found)
Paradox Reveals the Quantum Geometry Wizardry in Superconductivity’s “Magic Angle” "Scientists identify quantum geometry as crucial to process." By Ohio State University (scitechdaily.com) Image courtesy Oak Ridge National Laboratory
An Applied Mathematician With an Unexpected Toolbox "Lek-Heng Lim uses tools from algebra, geometry and topology to answer questions in machine learning." Rachel Crowell (quantamagazine.org) (Image Credit not Found)
NASA Slammed a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid And It Didn't Go Quite as Expected "That larger-than-expected change to the orbital period of the binary asteroid system can't be accounted for by the transfer of momentum from the DART spacecraft alone." Michelle Starr (sciencealert.com) (ASI/NASA)
Scientists Prove Validity of Key Physics Theorem in the Quantum World "The physicists at the University of Bonn have experimentally demonstrated that a crucial theorem in statistical physics is applicable to Bose-Einstein condensates." By University of Bonn (scitechdaily.com)
Wormholes might bend light like black holes do - and that could be the key to finding them "If wormholes exist, they might magnify distant objects according to Einstein's theory of relativity - and that makes it possible for us to find them, new research suggests." By JoAnna Wendel (livescience.com) (Image credit: Getty Images)
“Massive” Webb Space Telescope Discovery Defies Prior Understanding of the Universe "Six massive galaxies discovered in the early universe are upending what scientists previously understood about the origins of galaxies in the universe." By Penn State University (scitechdaily.com)
Leonardo da Vinci’s Forgotten Gravity Experiments Show He Was Centuries Ahead of His Time "Engineers from Caltech have discovered that Leonardo da Vinci’s understanding of gravity - though not wholly accurate - was centuries ahead of his time." By California Institute of Technology (scitechdaily.com) (Image credit: British Library)
Quantum Field Theory Pries Open Mathematical Puzzle. "Mathematicians have struggled to understand the moduli space of graphs. A new paper uses tools from physics to peek inside." Scientists reveal 'invisible' galaxy from the early universe, using space-time trick predicted by Einstein "Using the ALMA telescope in Chile and Einstein's theory of relativity, scientists observed a young galaxy in the early universe that is invisible in nearly every wavelength." By JoAnna Wendel (livescience.com) (Image credit: Giulietti et al./SISSA)
Physicists want to use gravitational waves to 'see' the beginning of time "Waves that originated in the early universe could carry important information about the phenomena that occurred there." By Andrey Feldman (livescience.com) (Image credit: L. Rezolla (AEI) & M. Koppitz (AEI & Zuse-Institut Berlin))
What did the ancient Egyptian pyramids look like when they were built? "The Egyptian pyramids erupting from the sands at Giza are a testament to human ingenuity and engineering." By Patrick Pester (livescience.com) (Image credit: Budget Direct)
Unsolved for 500 Years: Researchers Crack Leonardo da Vinci's Paradox "Researchers from the universities of Seville and Bristol have solved the mystery surrounding the unsteady path of an air bubble rising in water." By University of Seville (scitechdaily.com) Credit: Universidad de Sevilla
Mathematicians Eliminate Long-Standing Threat to Knot Conjecture "Over 60 years ago, Ralph Fox posed a problem about knots that haunts mathematicians to this day." Leila Sloman (quantamagazine.org) Image: Merrill Sherman/Quanta Magazine
52-foot-long Book of the Dead papyrus from ancient Egypt discovered at Saqqara "For the first time in 100 years, a full "Book of the Dead" papyrus has been uncovered at Saqqara." By Owen Jarus (livescience.com) (Image credit: duncan1890 via Getty Images)
Humanity May Reach Singularity Within Just 7 Years, Trend Shows "In the world of artificial intelligence, the idea of “singularity” looms large." Darren Orf (popularmechanics.com) John Lund - Getty Images
The Basic Algebra Behind Secret Codes and Space Communication "Whether you’re passing secret notes in class or downloading images from a space probe, Reed-Solomon codes offer an ingenious way to embed information and correct for errors." Patrick Honner (quantamagazine.org) photo: lsri.uic.edu
Directly Challenging Our Understanding of Nuclear Force: Scientists Discover Strongest Isospin Mixing Ever Observed "Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Modern Physics and their collaborators have identified the most significant isospin mixing observed in beta-decay experiments, directly challenging our current understanding of the nuclear force." By Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters (scitechdaily.com)
Mathematicians Roll Dice and Get Rock-Paper-Scissors "Mathematicians have uncovered a surprising wealth of rock-paper-scissors-like patterns in randomly chosen dice." By Erica Klarreich (quantamagazine.org) photo: shapeways.com
How Chaos Theory Relates Two Seemingly Different Areas of Physics "A new study at TU Wien has revealed how chaos theory connects quantum theory and thermodynamics, two seemingly separate areas of physics." By Vienna University of Technology (scitechdaily.com) Credit: TU Wien
Three-Body Problem: How to watch the Chinese TV series for free "The acclaimed Tencent adaptation is available now, and here's how to check it out." (esquireme.com) (Credits not Found)
1st small modular nuclear reactor certified for use in US. "It’s the seventh nuclear reactor design cleared for use in the United States. The rest are for traditional, large, light-water reactors. " Dr Michael Mosley: The strange reason walking downstairs is better for you than going up "Running up stairs? Lifting Weights? Dr Michael Mosley explains why the benefits of eccentric exercise mean you should be doing the exact opposite." By (sciencefocus.com) Image: Joe Waldron
Scientists Discover Species of Gut Microbes That Can Boost the Motivation To Exercise "Certain types of gut bacteria can activate nerves in the gut to increase the drive to exercise." (scitechdaily.com) Westend61//Getty Images
Minimum effort, maximum reward: 6 simple, science-backed changes that will transform your health "Here are some easy nutritional, physical, psychological and sociological ideas to help you be your best self… for a little bit longer, at least." Finally, a Fast Algorithm for Shortest Paths on Negative Graphs "In algorithms, as in life, negativity can be a drag." Ben Brubaker (quantamagazine.org) (Image Credit not Found)
Medieval pendant found in a garbage pit may hold the bones of a saint "Neutron imaging revealed that a medieval pendant from Germany holds fragments of bone, possibly those of a saint." By Tom Metcalfe (livescience.com) (Image credit: Sabine Steidl/LEIZA)
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