Artist’s impression of the powerful winds blowing from the bright X-ray source GX13+1. The X-rays are coming from a disc of hot matter, known as an accretion disc, that is gradually spiralling down to ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Abstract: Binary and decimal logarithms (BDLs) are commonly used in science and engineering. This brief presents a theory of the radix-4 generalized hyperbolic coordinate rotation digital computer (GH ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a long ...

You may know that computers use binary code to represent, well … everything. Everything stored on your computer’s disk or solid-state drive is stored in binary form, a sequence of zeros and ones. All ...

(FOX 9) - The background: The law was written and passed months after a man shot and killed two police officers and a firefighter-paramedic in Burnsville in February. The shooter used a binary trigger ...