Artist’s concept of JWST The 25th December marks an anniversary in the world of astronomy (as well as Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday, of course) – the launch of JWST, the infrared space telescope launched to explore the Universe in unprecedented …
In February 2007 the Supreme Court heard a case that hinged on about 15 minutes of video evidence from two police vehicles’ dashboard cameras: footage showed the front end of a police car as it pursued a driver in Georgia …
Thomas Bloom’s Erdös problem site has become a real hotbed of activity in recent months, particularly as some of the easiest of the outstanding open problems have turned out to be amenable to various AI-assisted approaches; there is now a …
Tips for Getting Manager Approval If you need sign-off from your manager, here’s what typically works: Position it as professional developmentThis isn’t just a conference — it’s targeted skills development using Adobe tools your organization already invests in. Lead with …
For nearly a decade, the MIT Warrior-Scholar Project STEM boot camp has helped enlisted members of the military prepare for higher education. “I went into the military right after high school, mostly because I didn’t really see the value of …
Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom. Their creamy carbonate walls and columns appear ghostly blue in the light of a remotely operated vehicle sent …
The paper “Explicit non-Abelian gerbes with connections“, co-authored by Dominik Rist (Heriot-Watt & Maxwell Institute), Christian Saemann (Heriot-Watt & Maxwell Institute), and Martin Wolf, has been published (open access) today (20 January) in the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and …
What Is A Knowledge Check? A knowledge check is a short, focused way to see whether someone truly understands what they have just learned. You will often see it appear during or right after a lesson, video, or training module, …
📖Read Time: 25 minutes 📊Readability: Advanced 📐 (Technical knowledge needed) 🔖Core Topics: group, groups, elements, called, theory Introduction The concept of a group is as simple as it gets: a set with a binary operation like addition and a couple …
An artist’s impression of nanomedicine in action ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Cancer that spreads to bones can be deadly, and it also tends to be painful. Now, a drug seems to address both problems by disrupting the interplay between nerves …