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GaN-based VCSEL arrays are emerging as a disruptive platform for next-generation displays, sensing, and optical communications, offering a unique combination of high brightness, spectral purity and ...

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After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in what was an empty storefront along the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. By ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

Prime numbers are numbers greater than 1 that can only be divided evenly by 1 and themselves. The number 2 is the only even prime number because every other even number is divisible by 2. There are ...

Artificial intelligence may be changing how content is made, but its bigger impact on media is how the technology is altering who is able to access that content, one media executive said. Jyoti ...

Ken Ono, the STEM Advisor to the Provost and Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, has been named a runner-up for the 2025 Cozzarelli Prize in the physical sciences, ...

One of my favorite anecdotes about prime numbers concerns Alexander Grothendieck, who was among the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century. According to one account, he was once asked to ...

A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime numbers. The primes — numbers that are only divisible by themselves ...

Luke Durant, a researcher and amateur mathematician, has identified the largest new prime number known to humankind. The newly discovered prime number is 2 to the power of 136,279,841, then minus one.

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