Children’s Discovery Museum expands with interactive play area
Both kids and adults explored a new educational play space near downtown San Jose on Friday, turning the wheel to open up a giant solar sunflower or crawling through a …
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Here are some of the people trying to fix period education across North America
True or false? People who get periods can sync up their menstrual cycles with their friends. “True,” said Toronto resident Sarah Hall. “I think that’s false,” said Tovan Lew, another …
JEECUP 2024 Mock Test link active: Important Physics and Math topics you must cover
JEECUP 2024 Mock Test link: The Joint Entrance Examination Council, Uttar Pradesh, has released the JEE CUP 2024 mock test. Candidates can access the mock test without needing any login …
As AI becomes more human-like, experts warn users must think more critically about its responses
Tech giant Google has announced upgrades to its artificial intelligence technologies, just a day after rival OpenAI announced similar changes to its offerings, with both companies trying to dominate the quickly …
Canada’s foreign student push ‘mismatched’ job market, data show
Canada’s recruitment of international students has tilted strongly toward filling spots in business programs, while doing little to meet the demand for workers in health care and the skilled trades, …
An Old Abstract Field of Math Is Unlocking the Deep Complexity of Spacecraft Orbits
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. …
Elon Musk’s xAI launching new version of Grok chatbot
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI announced that it’s releasing an upgraded version of its ChatGPT-rival chatbot Grok that will be able to code and do math-related tasks — but …
Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
This extreme fragility might make quantum computing sound hopeless. But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered a clever way to store quantum information. His encoding had two key …
Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking
Turing’s diagonalization proof is a version of this game where the questions run through the infinite list of possible algorithms, repeatedly asking, “Can this algorithm solve the problem we’d like …
A New Proof Moves the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1917, the Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed what at first seemed like nothing more than a fun exercise in …