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2 votes
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Dispelling the myths of nuclear energy
10 votes -
Cheap material could help convert waste heat into electricity
7 votes -
Climate contrarians predicted the world would cool—it didn’t
9 votes -
Squaring primes: Why all prime numbers >3 squared are one off a multiple of 24
10 votes -
Vast sunken continent “Icelandia” may exist under the North Atlantic – if proven it could upend long-standing assumptions about region's geological history
9 votes -
Scientist invents toilet that turns human feces into cryptocurrency
6 votes -
Five parrots separated at British zoo after encouraging each other to curse profusely at guests
18 votes -
The simplest math problem no one can solve
10 votes -
How hard is it to get counting right?
3 votes -
Smarter Every Day's 'Nuclear Submarine Deep Dive' completed playlist
10 votes -
The spring paradox
4 votes -
Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review.
5 votes -
The longest-running evolution experiment
4 votes -
The Mould Effect: A new theory
7 votes -
Forensic science can be a powerful crime-fighting tool, but misdeeds, dubious methodologies, and bogus claims threaten its reputation—and the reputation of science as a whole
7 votes -
Why do hurricane lamps look like that?
12 votes -
Three months in Monte Carlo
4 votes -
AlphaFold DB provides open access to protein structure predictions for the human proteome and twenty other key organisms to accelerate scientific research
4 votes -
MIT predicted in 1972 that society will collapse this century. New research shows we're on schedule
21 votes -
New electronic paper displays brilliant colors
17 votes -
UCSF researchers achieve the ability to interpret neurological signals into speech
10 votes -
How does a carburetor work? | Transparent carburetor at 28,546 fps slow mo
12 votes -
Meth addiction in fish poses threat to ecosystem balance, study says
7 votes -
The e-cigarette company Juul bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal, with all the articles written by authors on its payroll, to ‘prove’ that its product has a public benefit
25 votes -
Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?
9 votes -
Spiders are eating snakes all over the world, and yeah, it's gruesome
10 votes -
Neurotype-matching, but not being autistic, influences self and observer ratings of interpersonal rapport
12 votes -
Apophenia, audio pareidolia, and musical ear syndrome
5 votes -
Everyone will say this craft breaks the laws of physics - Risking my life to settle a physics debate
21 votes -
What we learned doing fast grants
4 votes -
I touched the world's most painful plant - Gympie gympie (the suicide plant)
10 votes -
Researchers develop weight loss device using powerful magnets to keep your mouth closed
6 votes -
Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity
15 votes -
The agony and the ecstasy of deep brain stimulation surgery
4 votes -
Can a $110 million helmet unlock the secrets of the mind?
6 votes -
ITER site construction is now 78% complete
11 votes -
How does film actually work? (It's magic) [Photos and Development]
10 votes -
Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman
14 votes -
Vicious doctors and cruel diseases in 18th-Century Jamaica
3 votes -
I found a mud volcano in California
2 votes -
Plans to capture and run six-hour-long sound tests on young minke whales are set to go ahead in Norway despite condemnation from more than fifty international scientists
5 votes -
Why having a 'weak' hand is good, and why they may be better described as "support" hands
6 votes -
The long, strange life of the world’s oldest naked mole rat
8 votes -
I need help with a story that involves math
I'm creating the concept for a story called The Little Differences. It's about an accountant that, one day, out of the blue, notices that a certain calculation is producing a slightly wrong...
I'm creating the concept for a story called The Little Differences. It's about an accountant that, one day, out of the blue, notices that a certain calculation is producing a slightly wrong result. Barely noticeable, nothing world-changing,
He runs it on the computer, tries different software, a physical calculator... everything gives a result that's a little off. When he checks on paper himself, he gets the correct result. But, to his surprise, everyone else tells him that he's the one that's off, and that the incorrect result is actually perfectly sound.
I need something that makes sense, mathematically. The weird result must be something that really is wrong, and not just something that programs sometimes get wrong (I don't want it to be explained at all... I mean, the reason why it is occurring must not be something easily reducible to some well-known malfunction). But it must also be minor enough for someone to miss, something that wouldn't really cause much trouble in the real world (is that possible? IDK).
Lastly: it must be something that I'm able to explain (on some level) to a non-math reader.
So, Tildes math wizzes, what you suggest? :D
17 votes -
The military’s mobile nuclear reactor prototype is set to begin taking shape
11 votes -
Heads up! The cardiovascular secrets of giraffes
6 votes -
Mimicry: When animals copy other animals
4 votes -
A better way to picture atoms
5 votes -
Small modular reactors and the future of energy
7 votes