The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

How camera shutter speed and a Method race wheel combined to capture a perfect visualization of aerodynamic flow.

What just happened? Following weeks of rumors, Ford has indicated that it will end production of the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck. The move is the clearest sign yet that electric ...

In a reversal of its electric vehicle strategy, Ford Motor Company announced it will dramatically scale back its plans for fully electric models, cancel key EVs, and refocus its core automotive ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a ...

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