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The most fuel-efficient way to reach the Moon, it turns out, is to fly straight past it. Not into orbit, not into a landing approach. Past it, skimming within 73 kilometres of the surface before looping back through a gravitational …
Naratip Santitissadeekorn visited the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Leicester, on Wednesday 15 April to give a talk in the Applied Mathematics Seminar. The title was “Influence network reconstruction from discrete time-series of count data …
2–4 minutes As of May 11, 2026, Coursera and Udemy are now one company, but we remain separate platforms for the time being. Today, there are no changes to your experience on Coursera. Over time, we plan to provide access …
Looking down on a Icelandic geothermal pool gives a view into a dragon’s eye in this drone image by photographer Miki Spitzer. It won the Gold distinction in the World Nature Photography Awards’ “Planet Earth’s landscapes and environments” category. I …
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This tutorial is a follow-up to a recent post by the author herself about archeoastronomical modeling of Central European Neolithic Circular Ditches [1], or roundels, with Wolfram 3D graphical primitives. Here, the focus will be instead on the use of …
It makes sense that Superman would take a tolerant view of immigrants and other minorities, given that he himself arrived on Earth as a refugee from the planet Krypton. The Man of Steel may strike you as an unlikely mouthpiece …
I’m delighted to speak with Shohini Ghose about her excellent 2023 book, Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe . Ghose is a Professor of Physics and Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, …
I’m writing to you from Dali, a city in China’s Yunnan province nicknamed “Dalifornia” because of its reputation as a haven for burned-out tech workers, artists, and wanderers looking to disappear for a while. I couldn’t be much further from …