Researchers at the University of Washington have genetically modified a common houseplant to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it.

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Martin Gibala’s newest study finds that running up a staircase for just 20 seconds, repeated a few times a day, can measurably improve your fitness

The Rationalization of the Attention Market The phenomenon of mass communication is not coupled to any specific technology. Its essential feature is the capacity to articulate a message that satura…

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Congratulations to these five members of the SIAM community who were recently awarded the James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, SIAG/CSE Early Career Prize, and SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering.


Jeff Bezanson, Stefan…

Ah, C. The best lingua franca we have… because we have no other lingua francas. Linguae franca. Surgeons general? C is fairly old — 44 years, now! — and comes from a time when there were possibly more architectures than programming languages. It works well…

When we started working on a Continuous Integration solution back in 2011, it was hard to imagine what Travis CI would become. Years later, we’re still continuously working to make our community an...

Employee 1: Hey, truelai, everytime Employee 2 walks by my cubicle, one of my screens blacks out and when it comes back on, it's the wrong...

In Python’s Numpy library lives an extremely general, but little-known and used, function called einsum() that performs summation according to Einstein’s summation convention. In this t…

In early 2018, a physics student named Jan Böhmer created...

Hanging out with the matchmaker who impersonates her clients online.

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