BENGALURU: Everyone has studied the irrational number π (pi) in school and wondered what is its use in modern day life.

BENGALURU: Everyone has studied the irrational number π (pi) in school and wondered what is its use in modern day life.

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

Children who count on their fingers between ages 4 and 6.5 have better addition skills by age 7 than those who don't use ...

A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the “principle of minimum change” — updating beliefs as little as possible ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics honours John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for revealing quantum phenomena in everyday circuits. Their experiments demonstrated quantum tunnelling and ...

The internet is full of people claiming to uncover conspiracies in politics and business. During the pandemic, public health experts and pharmaceutical companies became popular targets. Now an ...

How can the strange properties of quantum particles be exploited to perform extremely accurate measurements? This question is at the heart of the research field of quantum metrology. One example is ...

When the greatest mathematician alive unveils a vision for the next century of research, the math world takes note. That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians ...

Sacramento State football made an internet splash in the recruiting game in late February, looking past the high school crop of talent and instead focusing on middle school. There, the Hornets found ...

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