Mathematics

Me? I am predicting the Steelers to win it all. For the 27th consecutive year. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 24 2007 - 1:47am

advances by just doing the next obvious and often trivial thing, because that's all people have time ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 22 2008 - 11:04pm

a higher amount. So either all other players ask for the same amount as you do, or one or more players ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Dec 14 2009 - 10:10am

industry is even more astonishing. 95 percent of all drugs fail in humans, proving either too toxic or too ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2014 - 9:00am

which reflects transient protection--or some combination of all three. By carefully ensuring ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2014 - 10:49am

Sciences. "The conclusion is that all rates scale uniformly as the temperature increases." The ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2012 - 8:43pm

Spielman’s group. Together, Marcus, Srivastava, and Spielman broke the problem into three parts, all dealing ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2014 - 7:19pm

I know it could be fuzzy otherwise. Let's call the set of all program states S (p), where p is ...

Blog Post - Helium Väli - Jun 29 2010 - 2:24am

last time in this series, of which 30 have been found up to today, just happen to be this way – all ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 6 2010 - 11:57am

endlessly played rhythm, identical in all the parts. Now, to make all the rhythms identical, we are going to ...

Article - Robert Walker - May 10 2014 - 9:49pm

Please donate so science experts can write
for the public.

At Science 2.0, scientists are the journalists,
with no political bias or editorial control. We
can't do it alone so please make a difference.

We are a nonprofit science journalism
group operating under Section 501(c)(3)
of the Internal Revenue Code that's
educated over 300 million people.

You can help with a tax-deductible
donation today and 100 percent of your
gift will go toward our programs,
no salaries or offices.

John
We can know that this isn't purely a Trumpian thing because of the reviews from two years ago which basically said: 1) Astronomers have treated the people of Hawai'i like crap and owe...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 7 hours ago
Hontas Farmer
I'm not going to say you are wrong about any of the above. I'd not be surprised by a rising price tag as that seems to be how these things always go. I can't think of any big science...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 23 hours ago
John
To be honest, TMT did this to themselves by not being honest about the cost from the start. Had they told everyone that the cost for the installation would be on the order of $3 billion (most of...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
Zack Y.
Isn't this a dangerous inversion of how science is supposed to be done? What's to prevent this same scenario playing out for ANY potential discovery coming from a precision measurement...

The Anomaly That Wasn't · 1 day ago
bizdean
Thank you for this, IrishNeanderthal. Actually I believe what’s going on in America is under-hyped. The mainstream press is far too easy on Mr. Trump, who is convicted of multiple felonies and...

Editorial: This Week’s LA Non-riots · 4 days ago

Interesting insights from outside Science 2.0

Current Topic:

The best writers in science tackle science's hottest topics.