Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun(iflscience.com)

443 points by doener 11 months ago | 86 comments

IFLScience article about an astrophotographer's image capturing a skydiver silhouetted against the sun, titled 'The Fall of Icarus'.

The world’s largest wind turbine has been switched on(iflscience.com)

140 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 142 comments

Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017)(theguardian.com)

51 points by surement 1 year ago | 39 comments

Mathematicians prove Pólya's conjecture for the eigenvalues of a disk(phys.org)

233 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 51 comments

The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful(iflscience.com)

192 points by toss1 1 year ago | 198 comments

Fossil evidence of photosynthesis gets a billion years older(arstechnica.com)

46 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 35 comments

New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem(keith-mcnulty.medium.com)

849 points by malshe 3 years ago | 227 comments

Medium member-only article by Keith McNulty explaining how two New Orleans teenagers found a new trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.

Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia(cambridge.org)

51 points by pseudolus 25 days ago | 33 comments

Open-access article in the Cambridge journal Iraq examining the role of religion in scribal education in first millennium BCE Babylonia.

New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco(tlacuilolli.com)

353 points by dzdt 2 years ago | 130 comments

A post on the Tlacuilolli blog about Mesoamerican writing describing newly discovered Aztec codices from San Andrés Tetepilco.

Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city(hub.jhu.edu)

327 points by Someone 1 year ago | 240 comments

Johns Hopkins Hub article on clay cylinders found at an ancient Syrian site bearing what may be the oldest known alphabetic writing.

Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers(blog.edward-li.com)

364 points by edwardjxli 1 year ago | 144 comments

A blog post comparing Pyrefly (Meta) and ty (Astral), two new Rust-based Python type checkers, against each other and tools like mypy and Pylance.

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 18 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.