Picture this. Two employees starting the same day join the same onboarding program. One goes through the basics, but along the way, they start actively seeking more training opportunities. The other struggles to keep up and quietly quits before making …
Gayoung Lee at Gizmodo today has responses to the question Whatever Happened to String Theory?. Carlo Rovelli and I give the obvious and accurate answer that it’s a failed idea, explaining why. The other answers exhibit the sad state of …
One of the strangest mysteries about our Earth is the presence of two dense, giant blobs inexplicably clustered above the planet’s core. Now, new models might reveal where they have come from, and it’s neither of the expected origin stories. …
I have uploaded to the arXiv my paper “Sum-difference exponents for boundedly many slopes, and rational complexity“. This is the second spinoff of my previous project with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gómez–Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner that I recently posted about. …
In the wake of recent global challenges and technological progress, the education sector has witnessed a seismic shift in how learning is delivered and experienced. Blended learning, characterized by the integration of online digital media with traditional classroom methods, has …
Most of the atomic clocks in the world — fewer than 500 in total — are housed at standards institutes and used to keep time for the planet. But the one inside UC Berkeley’s Kolkowitz Lab has a different mission. …
This moss grew from a spore exposed to space for nine months Tomomichi Fujita On 4 March 2022, astronauts locked 20,000 moss spores outside the International Space Station and left them exposed to the rigours of space for 283 days. …
Anne Skeldon visited the University of Durham on Monday this week (17 November) where she was invited to give a talk in the Applied Mathematics Seminar series. The title of her talk was “Mathematical modelling of the sleep-wake cycle: light, …
By Patrick Supanc, Chief Product Officer, Coursera We’re entering a new era of learning—one defined by AI-powered experiences , trusted human expertise, and a shared responsibility to help people leverage this technology to grow their potential. Across business, government, and …
In June we featured an interview with the author Olivia Campbell about her recent book Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History. In Sisters in Science, Campbell traces the lives and careers of …
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