Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don't have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out ...
Mars has been sold as a bold escape plan, a backup world for a species that keeps testing the limits of its first one. The harder I look at the technical and ethical record, the more that dream reads ...
In his short career, Ettore Majorana made several profound contributions. One of them, his concept of 'Majorana fermions' — particles that are their own antiparticle — is finding ever wider relevance ...