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Mathematics students face challenges with rational and irrational numbers. Understanding the principles and patterns simplifies this concept. Rational numbers can be fractions of integers. Irrational ...

Scientists have long debated the merits and risks of tinkering with viruses and bacteria, which the president claims caused the coronavirus pandemic. By Carl Zimmer and Emily Anthes President Trump ...

We apologize to our Roombas when we trip over them—so why do we hesitate to call an LLM conscious when it starts apologizing back? Maybe the real question isn’t if AI is conscious, but rather what ...

At long last, National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted to Congress Thursday that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of ...

Documents obtained by The Intercept contain new evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the nearby Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment, along with their collaborator, the ...

A horizontal asymptote is a horizontal line that a function approaches as the input variable (usually denoted as x) goes towards infinity or negative infinity. Understanding how to find horizontal ...

In an era when artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming the brush and chisel of the modern artist, we find ourselves at a crossroads of understanding what constitutes beauty. The advent of ...

The introduction of writing and agriculture were watershed events for humanity, and are forever interlinked. People have been telling stories – made up and otherwise – and sharing information about ...