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What’s the Roundest Object in the Universe?
For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...
How plant roots change their growth pattern during 'puberty' has implications for climate-resilient agriculture
Understanding how roots grow can help us develop plants that—for example—are more resistant to drought. Research by Prof.
Live Science16h
'The bottom line is, I told you so': JWST observations upend standard model of how galaxies form, new study claims
The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on ...
A 41-million-digit prime number is the biggest ever found—but mathematicians' search for perfection will continue
Specifically, 136,279,841 ones in a row. If we stacked up that many sheets of paper, the resulting tower would stretch into ...
How the World’s Most Expensive Spice Is Grown
Its vibrant purple petals notwithstanding, the saffron flower (Crocus sativus) is valued primarily for what hides beneath ...
Scientists Have Pushed the Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox to New Limits
A research team in China has held atoms in a state of quantum superposition for 23 minutes, suggesting tantalizing new ...
Christianity Today2d
The Consolation of Providence
The doctrine of God’s wise and sovereign governance doesn’t make history easy to interpret. It makes living through it ...
UPDATE: Canadian buyer snags Jimmy Buffett's Palm Beach cottage for $6.11M
Family behind Quebec entity that paid $6.11 million for Jimmy Buffett's Palm Beach house is unidentified. But they're not ...
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Price’s law: as applied to the banking industry
By J. N. Halm First introduced in 1965 by a British physicist, sociologist and science historian, Derek J. de Solla Price, Price’s Law or Price’s Square Root Law is quite an interesting rule of thumb.