Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.

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In summer 2019, Bob McDonough took a full stack web development coding bootcamp at the University of Pennsylvania. An English-turned-telecommunications major in college, McDonough had been working at ...

The cruise control setting in a manual-transmission car operates in a similar manner to that of an automatic — that is, the system locks the throttle into place to maintain a set speed. However, there ...

Recursion Pharmaceuticals uses AI to expedite the laborious process of developing drugs. The company could benefit from industry-wide regulatory changes as well as its own clinical progress. However, ...

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing them into tiny targets. Particle accelerators, also known as particle ...