Euler's identity combines these five numbers in a simple and elegant equation. Despite each of the constants representing fundamentally different operations or areas in mathematics (algebra, geometry, and complex analysis), they all come together in this identity, showing a deep

Happy 131st Birthday to Satyendra Nath Bose (b.OTD in 1894), Indian physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics, leading to the development of Bose-Einstein statistics and the prediction of a new state of matter called the Bose-Einstein condensate. Despite

Niels Bohr's 1944 letter to Winston Churchill explaining him the scale of the Manhattan Project✉️ 22nd May 1944 The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, C.H., M.P. Sir, In accordance with your kind permission, I have the honour to send you a brief report about my impressions of

In 1856, Eunice Foote was the first to demonstrate the greenhouse effect by showing that carbon dioxide traps more heat than air. She published her findings in the American Journal of Science, but was largely ignored and denied the opportunity to present her work at a scientific

Fantastic to see three Janklow authors chosen by The @guardian as part of their BOOKS OF THE YEAR! 🎊LOVE TRIANGLE by @standupmaths 🎊THE SPOILED HEART by Sunjeev Sahota 🎊EVERYTHING IS PREDICTABLE by @TomChivers . @AllenLaneBooks @HarvillSecker @wnbooks @zcosini

Trailer for fascinating new documentary by Carey Born CYBORG: A DOCUMENTARY | IN CINEMAS FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER | UK theatrical... https://t.co/a7zsMdZDuI via @YouTube

CYBORG: A DOCUMENTARY director, Carey Born, was interviewed about the film on the BBC’s Jumoké Fashola show. You can listen here: https://t.co/xXCE2k7U0b The film is released in cinemas this Friday, 20th September by Tull Stories. Screening info at: https://t.co/sGtE2qODA4

If you couldn’t make my Royal Institution talk, there is always my book, A CRACK IN EVERYTHING, which focuses on the people who have made black hole discoveries, with the science interwoven as painlessly (hopefully) as possible https://t.co/uHtX6Fx7Bj @HoZ_Books @FelicityBryan

Dr. Carl Sagan on books ✍️ What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of

Me on White Holes by Carlo Rovelli review – space odyssey

Leonardo da Vinci was a perfectionist and a procrastinator. He often left his works unfinished or delayed them for years. He carried some of his paintings with him wherever he went, such as the Mona Lisa and the Virgin and Child with St. Anne, and kept working on them until his

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🚨 Announcing the Bloomsbury Mentorship Programme 2023 🚨 The programme is a scheme to support unpublished, underrepresented fiction writers as they work to establish careers in the publishing industry. Find out more on how to apply: https://t.co/zuJDaKQkfv

Physicists and chalkboards! 20 iconic photographs of theoretical physicists in front of their chalkboards. A Thread 👇

Saint Catherine Greek Orthodox Monastery at Sinai/Egypt holds a staggering record. Operating for almost 1,500 years uninterrupted since Emperor Justinian established it, with the oldest continuously operating library, contains some of the earliest Christian icons and texts.

Visualizations of Einstein's general relativity often show space warping only "underneath" an object--this visual is better:

Originally missed this among other news.

Well, I had a good run. Couldn’t dodge it when 1-in-17 have it in England.

Me on the splendid The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya review – the life of John von Neumann