At CES, what stood out to me was just how much Nvidia and AMD focused on a systems approach, which may be the most ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results. Unearthed in 2012 from a tomb dated to ...

Costs, insurance delays and difficult-to-obtain mental health treatment plague the US health system A record 23 % of Americans believe the United States healthcare system is “in a state of crisis” and ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

Jean-Charles Pelland's work has been made possible by financial support from the ‘QUANTA: Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification’ project, which has received funding from the European ...

To design and implement an automated converter that enables seamless transformation between major number systems used in computing. The app simplifies mathematical conversions, reduces user errors, ...

Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our sun hosts our solar system, and if you look more broadly, groups of stars make up huge structures such as ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

CO 2 concentrations vary widely depending on the source, ranging, for example, from about 0.04% in the atmosphere to about 10% in flue gases. Moreover, these gas streams contain a significant amount ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a long ...