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A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...

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In 1900, mathematician David Hilbert presented his colleagues with a list of problems he believed both captured the present state of mathematics and the shape of its future. This year, 125 years later ...

“This is a gorgeous and original meditation on Blackness through the lens of another color: blue. The National Book Award-winning author Imani Perry’s Black in Blues is a slim but profound volume of ...

On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic ...

Few sectors have been targeted by the promises of artificial intelligence as relentlessly as education. Could one of those promises have finally been fulfilled? The school textbook is education’s most ...

In the 100th-anniversary year of quantum mechanics, which describes the universe at its smallest, most fundamental scales, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to three pioneers in bringing its ...

For the first time, scientists have observed electrons in graphene behaving like a nearly perfect quantum fluid, challenging a long-standing puzzle in physics. By creating ultra-clean samples, the ...

Skim through the voting section of McGraw Hill’s civics textbook, and you’ll see images from Hillary Clinton’s and Elizabeth Warren’s campaigns (whilst any campaign photos of a certain recent victor ...