For four decades, a quiet boundary in pure mathematics kept a powerful theorem locked inside the safe world of finite quantities. Now a new result known as Sebestyen’s theorem has pushed that boundary ...

I was looking over the week’s posts on Hackaday – it’s part of my job after all – and this gem caught my eye: a post about how to make your own RP2040 development board from scratch. And I’ll admit ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) accused the mainstream press of allowing Democrats to get away with the most extreme example of gaslighting in the history of American politics by blaming the ...

The fatal shooting of a Burnsville firefighter while he was tending to a fallen police officer is an extreme example of what Minnesota first-responders describe as an increasingly dangerous profession ...

Abstract: Radar automatic target recognition (RATR) based on high-resolution range profile (HRRP) has attracted more attention in recent years. In fact, the actual application environment of RATR is ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

More and more people are using artificial intelligence chatbots and there have been some troubling stories about some of those interactions. Kashmir Hill, technology reporter for The New York Times, ...

In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last Theorem, a central problem in number theory that had remained open ...

Residual value is the estimated value of an asset at the end of its useful life. It's used to figure out things like the value of a car at the end of a lease or how much equipment is worth after it's ...