Earlier this month the Mathematics Institute at Uppsala University hosted a conference called Categorification in Algebra and Topology, clearly a theme close to our collective heart. As yet there are ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Moore’s Law was a 10-year forecast on transistors that instead held true for decades. We are reaching the physical limit of how powerful the same ...

After crossing the $5 trillion market capitalization threshold recently, investors might wonder how much upside is left in Nvidia Corporation shares. One has to make very strong assumptions about ...

Factorio: Space Age transports the beloved base-building and automation sandbox game onto other planets, but what if you placed your focus more centrally among the stars? That's the pitch for Outworld ...

The Africa Program achieves its mission through in-depth research that offers practical solutions to key challenges in US-Africa relations. The Africa Program's flagship initiatives include the ...

I'm a big fan of city-building and sandbox games, but ones that lean in on automation always end up feeling the most rewarding to me. The sense of satisfaction that comes from setting and forgetting ...

Cocktail Queries is a Paste series that examines and answers basic, common questions that drinkers may have about mixed drinks, cocktails and spirits. Check out every entry in the series to date. When ...

After an early breakthrough on light and matter, he became a writer who challenged climate science and pondered space exploration and nuclear warfare. By George Johnson Freeman J. Dyson, a ...

One day in spring 2018 astrophysics professor Jason Wright gave his students a tall order: make a substantial, novel contribution to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)—in a semester.

It’s a scary time to be the operator of a young craft brewery. Even when operating on a very small scale, we have entered an era when success and growth are no longer the general rule in the beer ...

They were talking about setting up a mini-factory to turn slugs into shards, then putting a Somerloop in there so each slug gets turned into twice as many shards. I'm sure they will answer before long ...