IntroductionIn October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The $5 billion mission...
Things to know:– The Bitcoin Halving is a critical event in the Bitcoin lifecycle that underpins the protocol’s decentralization and security. – This 2024 halving...
IntroductionBirds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. Within assemblies of organisms that seem as though they could get chaotic, order somehow emerges. The collective behaviors...
IntroductionTime seems linear to us: We remember the past, experience the present and predict the future, moving consecutively from one moment to the next....
The German research powerhouse DESY made its name in high-energy physics, but the Center for Quantum Technology and Applications (CQTA) aims to extend –...
IntroductionIn Disney’s 1959 film Donald in Mathmagic Land, Donald Duck, inspired by the narrator’s descriptions of the geometry of billiards, energetically strikes the cue...
IntroductionThe discovery during the Human Genome Project in the early 2000s that we humans have only about 20,000 protein-coding genes — about as many...
IntroductionAbout 70 years ago, an engineer at IBM named Hans Peter Luhn quietly changed the course of computer science. Luhn already held several patents,...
What is encryption?
Encryption is the method by which information is converted into secret code that hides the information's true meaning. The science of encrypting...
