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A 1925 Popular Science illustration of Anton Flettner’s rotor ship, a “sailing ship without sails,” that amazed readers—and Albert Einstein. “Denuded of all sails, masts, and riggings,” wrote G. B.

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The measurement problem in quantum mechanics looks at how an experimental outcome changes, simply by observing it.

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The question is not whether our broken funding system will be reformed, but how. One proposal clearly stands out as the best.

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Just as the United States has prospered through its ability to draw talent from every corner of the globe, so too has MIT thrived as a magnet for the ...

This past week, I began reading The Maniac, a fictionalized biography of John von Neumann. While von Neumann is perhaps lesser known than some of his contemporaries — Albert Einstein, J. Robert ...

In the well orchestrated war against shark nets in NSW, truth has long been the first casualty. The fatal shark attack on a ...