life on earth

I've never understood cryptocurrency, and I'm still a bit baffled that it was really a thing. As far as I understand it (on a very simple level), cryptocurrency mining occurs when the blockchain asks a computer to perform complicated math…

From pineapples to pinecones and ammonites to nautilus, nature is full of patterns. One important category involves tiling patterns characterized by tiles and interfaces – such as a giraffe's coloring. Tiling patterns are functionally…

Plants on Earth evolved to harness photosynthesis to survive, releasing the oxygen that changed our planet. Researchers led by Adam Frank, the Helen F. and Fred H. Gowen Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester,…