15+ hour, 56+ min ago  (995+ words) By Manon Bischoff edited by Daisy Yuhas For thousands of years, scholars have investigated the peculiarities of irrational numbers. And yet, even today, we are far from having unlocked their secrets. On the contrary, it seems that even the most…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (421+ words) Glass Almanac A new record has been set: the largest known prime number now has over 23 million digits " 23, 249, 425 to be exact " shattering the previous record from January 2016. Don't miss any of our posts: Known as Mersenne primes in the field…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (944+ words) This mind-bending math focuses on morphing families of shapes The shapes of a donut and a mug are similar. Both have a single hole. If you made these shapes from clay, you could mold one into the other without breaking…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (714+ words) Mirage News The planar Hall effect is a tabletop diagnostic tool for special quantum properties useful in basic research and technological applications. Or so it was thought, because careful calculation by Kobe University researchers clarifies the conditions under which this…...

4+ week, 12+ hour ago  (305+ words) "We were able to isolate an intermediate structure from our ruthenium complex formation reaction and characterize this with single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Surprisingly, we found the structure to be doubly ring-slipped," says Takebayashi. Ring-slippage happens when the number of atoms in…...