Hubble Space Telescope Captures Lopsided Spiral Galaxy
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What Caused This Seven-Mile Scar in Australia’s Outback?
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Math and Physics Can’t Prove All Truths
November 29, 2024 5 min read Physicists have described a system that requires an incomputable number to fully understand, another example of the provably unprovable puzzles of mathematics By Manon Bischoff edited by Daisy Yuhas Mathematicians have known for decades that some problems are unsolvable. Now physicists have identified a new example. matdesign24/Getty Images You
Hope Can Be More Powerful Than Mindfulness
In troubling times, how do we move forward? What mindsets help us bounce back from adversity? When the world ground to a halt because of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, few industries felt the impact quite like the performing arts. Venues shuttered and crowds dispersed. Musicians, actors and production crews faced an unprecedented challenge: they
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