Kitchenware for physicists and mathematicians

This rather chilling choice of words from the Borg right before assimilation shows the benefits of a hive mind and thus the shared knowledge of sev...

In physics, you can find many renowned scientists and theorists that are good role models. But the smallest role models are often overlooked in the...

Since the first season of The Big Bang Theory aired on TV, we've been aware that the famous thought experiment by Erwin Schrödinger not only clarif...

Physics is definitely the most important of all sciences ? at least according to physicists ;). If you take a closer look, their way of thinking is...

Isn't it amazing what the human brain is capable of? Not only has it secured our place at the top of the food chain, it can also adapt extremely qu...

Be it from George Orwell's novel 1984, Soviet propaganda or the Radiohead song, most people are acquainted with the (false) equation 2+2=5. Apart f...

No matter how much you want them, some things are just not meant to be: fire and water, good and evil, or roots and negative numbers. There is no r...

Most likely, it will always be the privilege of older generations to lecture younger generations about how hard and unforgiving life was "back in t...

Admittedly, mathematics has managed to get such a bad rep that even synchronized vacuuming appears more interesting to many people. To someone who ...

Without what could you never leave Earth?If we put the question like that, we’d probably get a lot of different answers ranging from pragmatic (“a ...

No matter how much you want them, some things are just not meant to be: fire and water, good and evil, or roots and negative numbers. There is no r...

Sometimes, you've got to crack some jokes to make a pie. Most people know from maths class that the number ? is invaluable for many calculations - ...