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Quasicrystals are non-periodic hexagonal crystals that follow the same rules as mathematical penrose tiles. Here's a paper on some interesting theoretical phase transitions that ar…

For a steampunk throwback of this idea, there are a number of self-playing full orchestras at the House on the Rock (an amazing museum of all things kitsch Wisconsin) that use 100%…

This headline, the article, and most of the comments here seem to be going out of their way to present this as a way bigger change than it is. As is clear even from the preview, th…

I'm glad that was helpful. I'm in a similar boat of just being interested in this for fun. I have a little more of the math and physics background for it, but it's pretty rusty and…

It's hard to know what your current knowledge level is without more information, but it sounds like you're trying to develop a good background more just to dive into areas that see…

Yeah, sleep time is key for getting things done with kids and toddlers. If your toddler isn't napping much or your kids are staying up late, a sleep consultant can help you reset t…

For the first-grader (and some toddlers), you could try kids audio books. Most kids love them and it can keep them entertained for a long time and more mentally engaged than TV. So…

Someone posted here on the photoacoustic effect a few days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21454851 ) and the link above is a cool old paper I discovered down that Inter…

Inside out just means that the local equivalent of Earth's geologic plates seem to be subducting below the surface and fresh geologic plate equivalents are abducting back up. You c…

If a center of mass begins to aggregate in an area of space, smaller objects may get captured and will move in an elliptical orbit with the forming object at one of the foci of an …

Here's a link to the press conference slides: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Press-Conferences/index....

I'd published a couple books years ago and the publisher's benchmark was 2000-4000 copies (depending on variables within their business) over any period of time was a commercial su…

This reminds me a bit of how flubber works in the 1960s Disney movie "The Absent-Minded Professor".

If the SEC gives guidance that something is high risk, and you are paying someone to managing your money with the understanding that you want a low-to-moderate risk portfolio, then…

The article says the earnings are $500 more future yearly income _per one incremental year in public housing_. For someone in public housing for a number of years, this is signific…

Of course, the neutrino feels nearly as young as the moment it was born.

Each similar search Google can avoid re-running saves them compute resources and therefore money. Google's as-you-type search suggestions encourage some significant percentage of u…