In our field of applied mathematics, the long, human process of trial and error β not just the solutions themselves β is often what has led to progress.
An early computer. After World War II, computers became the tool with which math and engineering moved forward in tandem. Will they now be mathβs undoing?
A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded βextraordinary proofβ that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
Kent Hups, a high school science teacher in Colorado, discovered a 23-foot trackway of fossilized dinosaur footprints, which offer a glimpse of how the apex predator moved 66 million years ago.