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Tech

A New Number Format for Computers Could Nuke Approximation Errors for Good

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By Michael Byrne
Tech

If We Can’t Save Pandas, We Can’t Save Anything

03.14.16

By Kaleigh Rogers
Games

Here’s How a 4D Video Game Actually Works

03.08.16

By Beckett Mufson
Tech

The Celestial Math Behind Leap Year

02.29.16

By James Hetrick
Tech

Physicists Are Turning to Pancake Batter To Combat Loss of Vision

02.06.16

By Daniel Oberhaus
Tech

Physicists Cut Through the Randomest Randomness of Large Quantum Systems

01.27.16

By Michael Byrne
Tech

After 2,500 Years, a Chinese Gaming Mystery is Solved

01.25.16

By Leif Johnson
Tech

Why a Mathematician Spent Years Mulling Over How to Slice a Pizza

01.15.16

By Kaleigh Rogers
Tech

Britney Spears’s Guide to Physics Is Still the Best Science Website From 1999

01.08.16

By Jordan Pearson
Tech

Use Math to Make Your Gifts Look Less Like Trash

12.24.15

By Jordan Pearson
Tech

The Strangest, Most Spectacular Bridge Collapse (And How We Got It Wrong)

12.14.15

By ALEX PASTERNACK
Sports

The Myth Of Brilliant NBA Timeout Play-Calling

12.08.15

By Kevin Broom

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