Pierre-Simon Laplace

When Lucas George Wendt arrived in Lajeado in late May, the water had already started to recede. Just days before, the peaks of roofs and the tops of trees were some of the only things visible above the murky brown water that had covered his hometown. Located in the Taquari Valley, Lajeado, population 85,000, was […]

This tide-predicting machine was one of many advances he made to maritime tech

Angiogenesis is a process of forming hierarchical vascular networks in living tissues. Its complexity makes the controlled generation of blood vessels in laboratory conditions a highly challenging task.

"For years, he had the field of planetary formation, which he had created, virtually to himself. Most Soviet colleagues were skeptical and uninterested; his research appeared so speculative, so far removed from any evidence."

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On crafting tight-knit communities with potential for high future impact in the post-pandemic era.

The field of statistics has a very rich and colourful history with plenty of interesting stories. Milton Lim describes his personal favourite – Carl Friedrich Gauss' discovery of the method of least squares and the normal distribution to solve a particularly thorny problem in astronomy. So where did the ubiquitous bell curve originate from?

Scientists are studying the complex effects of climate change on winter crops. Warming winters may sound like a welcome change for some farmers because the change in temperature could reduce freezing stress on plants and create more ideal conditions for growing overwinter cash crops and winter cover crops. However, when looking at climate change from a cross-seasonal perspective and accounting for declining…

University of Minnesota scientists are partnering with a global team to study the complex effects of climate change on winter crops.

Regardless of what stock market analysts, political pollsters and astrologers might say, we can't predict the future. In fact, we can't even predict the past...

Astronomers have gotten better at tracking the motions of stars just beyond the solar system. But that's made it harder to predict Earth's future and reconstruct its past.

Nikhil Krishnan reviews "Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will," by Robert M. Sapolsky.

Knowing that black holes tend to have these masses could help provide a new way of measuring the expansion rate of the universe.

'In a way, we've gotten closure on a question that started with James Clerk Maxwell."

The history of 'normal' tells a tale of prejudice and bad maths. The most usual thing about people is how much we differ

[What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? – Benjamin Franklin All the content in this post, …

Catastrophic floods, crop-wilting droughts and record heatwaves this year have shown that climate change warnings are increasingly becoming reality and this is "just the beginning", experts say, as international efforts to cut planet-heating emissions founder.

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