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Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler ...

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The European Central Bank, in hiking interest rates on Thursday for the first time since 2023, is making a choice the Federal Reserve is not: to increase rates into a supply shock. Granted, the ECB is ...

Keith Urban is gearing up for a record release unlike any he's mounted before: An album full of yacht rock cover songs called Flow State which drops on Friday (June 12.) There will be 10 familiar ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

“We don’t do debt anymore,” Dave Ramsey declared on a recent episode of The Ramsey Show after coaching a caller through his debt snowball method. His core philosophy is simple: Borrowing is the enemy, ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics. Reading time 10 minutes Will ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...