Quantum computers are already here, but they make far too many errors. This is arguably the biggest obstacle to the technology really becoming useful, but recent breakthroughs suggest a solution may ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

I’m a new principal investigator (PI) with my own laboratory at a prestigious university. The PhD students who make it into our programme have already achieved a lot academically. But, sometimes, that ...

In a dark room, in the middle of the night, a woman lies dreaming. Suddenly, her eyes beneath their lids dart crisply left-right, left-right. The eye signal means she knows she’s dreaming. Lucid ...

This repository is a comprehensive, daily archive of my coding progress across Phase 1 and Phase 2 of Elite Placement Training. It serves as a personal log and a demonstration of consistent, long-term ...

This repository is a comprehensive, daily archive of my coding progress across Phase 1 and Phase 2 of Elite Placement Training. It serves as a personal log and a demonstration of consistent, long-term ...

As sometimes-violent anti-ICE protests sweep the nation, the Democratic Socialists of America has created the “Red Rabbits Security Commission” to train members in “unarmed community defense.” While ...

In February, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) reached the milestone of 100,000 members, with nearly 14,000 of them in New York City alone. The election of Zohran Mamdani, a longtime DSA activist ...

Steven Bouma-Prediger seldom sees students walking between classes without their faces buried in their smartphones. This distraction transfers into the classroom, where Bouma-Prediger takes matters ...

The race for LA mayor has two candidates from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), including City Council member Nithya Raman. It is worth a look at the DSA’s political platform. The first item ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...