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United Launch Alliance was hoping to ramp up its new Vulcan rocket launches this year, but won’t be launching any national security missions until it solves a recurring issue of booster nozzles ...

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In 2002, an unknown mathematician quietly posted a paper online that stunned the academic world. It solved a problem that had defeated the greatest minds for over a century. A $1 million prize and the ...

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If something looks and sounds stupid, but it really works, then it’s not actually stupid! Problems don’t always need to be solved with fancy, expensive, and high-tech approaches. All you really need ...

Guterres warns against erosion of international law and cooperation Multilateralism under assault, secretary-general says, amid global conflicts, US funding cuts Guterres prioritizes AI governance to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wikipedia has recently come under the microscope. I take some credit for this, as the co-founder of Wikipedia and a vocal critic ...

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 ...