NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is celebrating Pi Day (March 14) with a set of four math problems — featuring Martian craters, distant exoplanets, Saturn orbits and eclipses — to be understood ...

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One of the key equations needed to understand spacecraft navigation is Newton's inverse square law of gravity: We learned this in Physics 101 in the university as engineers. Essentially, the force ...

*Makes one wonder what it would sound like to simply speak vector space mathematics aloud, rather than bothering with human language. "Computer science is changing the nature of the translation of ...

A proposed mathematical proof that outlines the way information behaves in coded messages may have implications for black holes. The proof suggests that the radiation spit out by black holes may ...

Hold on to your protractors, people, we're about to get positively scientifical up in here. Seeing the recent coverage of the 50th anniversary of the first moonwalk got me to try a game I'd been ...

Computer science is changing the nature of the translation of words and sentences from one language to another. Anybody who has tried BabelFish or Google Translate will know that they provide useful ...