[ad_1] Luis Caffarelli, winner of the 2023 Abel prize Nolan Zunk/UT AUSTIN Luis Caffarelli has won the 2023 Abel prize, unofficially called the Nobel prize for mathematics, for his work on a class of equations that describe many real-world physical systems, from melting ice to jet engines. Caffarelli was having breakfast with his wife when […]
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Around 2 billion people don’t have access to clean drinking water
[ad_1] Women collecting water in Somalia, where millions are being affected by a severe drought Giles Clarke for The New York Times via Getty Images Around 2 billion people don’t have access to safe drinking water, a major United Nations report has found. Several factors are to blame, says Richard Connor at the UN, the […]
The microbiome inside the penis can be altered by vaginal sex
[ad_1] A transmission electron micrograph of a colony of Gardnerella vaginalis, bacteria that are found in vaginas and the urethras of men who have vaginal sex MOREDUN ANIMAL HEALTH LTD/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The male urethra – the tube through which urine exits the body – is home to an array of bacteria, some of which […]
Ramsey numbers: Breakthrough in fiendishly hard puzzle has mathematicians partying
[ad_1] The key to a successful party is a good mix of people Digital Vision Mathematicians have made a breakthrough on an incredibly difficult problem in combinatorics, the study of combinations. It is the first significant advance in nearly a century for our understanding of Ramsey numbers, which can be used to describe the minimum […]
Google's Bard AI chatbot has now been released to the public
[ad_1] Google is now providing limited public access to its Bard AI chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Here’s what we know so far about what it can do and how to access it [ad_2] Source link
Why we’re trapped in short-term thinking and how to take the long view
[ad_1] The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, the worlds longest bridge at just under 24 miles long, near New Orleans, Louisiana and shot from an altitude of about 1000 feet during a helicopter photo flight. Getty Images IN 1981, Kent Cochrane was in a motorcycle crash that left him with an unusual brain injury, one that transformed […]
Ryugu: Samples from the asteroid contain one of the building blocks of RNA
[ad_1] Samples from the asteroid Ryugu contain uracil, one of the four building blocks of RNA, as well as niacin and other compounds that are important for living organisms. This lends credence to the idea that the ingredients for life were brought to Earth by space rocks. Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft returned 5.4 grams of […]
3D-printed cake made from 7 different pastes and finished by a laser
[ad_1] The 3D-printed cheesecake Jonathan Blutinger / Columbia Engineering A 3D-printing lab has figured out how to automate the assembly and cooking of a seven-ingredient cheesecake – and the result doesn’t taste like a conventional dessert. “When you bite into it, you kind of feel the flavours hit you in different waves,” says Jonathan Blutinger […]
Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat
[ad_1] This single shape produces a pattern that never repeats David Smith, Joseph Myers, Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Craig S. Kaplan Mathematicians have discovered a single shape that can be used to cover a surface completely without ever creating a repeating pattern. The long-sought shape is surprisingly simple but has taken decades to uncover – and […]
Asteroids that speed up unexpectedly may be ‘dark comets’ in disguise
[ad_1] Some asteroids may produce invisible jets of gas Shutterstock/Vadim Sadovski Astronomers say they have found a class of objects that blurs the line between asteroids and comets, appearing to fire jets of gas that can’t be seen with telescopes. Comets are known to periodically emit bursts of gas and dust as the sun melts […]