A new analysis of a set of ancient clay tablets has revealed that ancient astronomers of Babylonia used advanced geometrical methods to calculate the position of Jupiter – a conceptual leap that was ...

While the current peace proposal for Gaza, authored by Israel and the US, no longer includes displacement of Palestinians to Egypt's Sinai peninsula, Cairo is right to be concerned such an idea is a ...

1 Department of Basic Courses, Suzhou Key Lab of Multi-Modal Data Fusion and Intelligent Healthcare, Suzhou City University, Suzhou, China 2 School of Science, Xi’an University of Architecture and ...

In the early hours of Monday, 56-year-old Ahmed al-Amouri watched wryly as three Israeli tanks rolled into his hometown, Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. The last time he had seen tanks there was ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

ABSTRACT: This paper explores Maxwell’s analogy idea between electromagnetic field lines and incompressible fluid, and explains Faraday’s law and Maxwell’s formula for displacement currents by means ...

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As the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) concludes in Baku, Azerbaijan, global commitments to address climate change are once again being confronted with the stark realities on ...

Abstract: Accurate acquisition of displacement signals is of great importance in the field of engineering research, but displacement transducers have harsh requirements for testing conditions, which ...

This story is part of the Grist arts and culture series Moral Hazards, a weeklong exploration of the complex — sometimes contradictory — factors that drive our ethical decision-making in the age of ...