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 ...

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When you are doing division, it's helpful to use a written method. This can be especially useful if the numbers get too big to calculate in your head. If the number you are dividing by (this is called ...

Complex digital representations of organs were reconstructed by computationally generating virtual slices from sparsely sampled planar spatial transcriptomic data, exemplified by a 38-million-cell ...

US chemist Alice Ball was born in Seattle, Washington, on 24 July 1892. She came from a middle-class African-American family of photographers; her grandfather, James Presley Ball, was one of the first ...

The 50/30/20 rule, created by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren in her book All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan, has been a gold standard for budgeting since 2006. The method advises ...