The New Math of Some Temporary Things
New Math is an attempt to quantify the world using words and basic math.
New Math is an attempt to quantify the world using words and basic math.
Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? Research suggests as people climb the social ladder, their compassionate feelings towards other people decline. Why would wealth and status decrease our feelings of compassion for others? After all, it seems more likely that having few resources would lead to…
What is the future of the future? Will it all end in fire or in ice? And what kinds of events will the penultimate reveal? Jill Neimark asks theoretical physicist Lee Smolin.
Here you are, a human being, a grand Universe of atoms that have organized themselves into simple monomers, assembled together into giant macromolecules, which in turn comprise the organelles that make up your cells. And here you are, a collection of around 75 trillion specialized cells, organized in such a way as to make up…
An international team of researchers has published their paper demonstrating quantum teleportation between two Canary Islands. While quantum teleportation doesn’t lead to instantaneous communication, what it does lead to is incredibly secure communications. That’s because no matter what instructions the sender sends over normal communications channels, those instructions are completely useless without the receiver’s entangled…
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It usually takes two snakes — a female and a male — to make a litter of baby copperheads. But research now shows that copperheads and their venomous cousins cottonmouths don’t always require a partner to establish the next generation. These vipers are capable of virgin births. For some vertebrates, parthenogenesis — asexual reproduction in…