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A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...

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This article first appeared at Just Security. The Trump administration is building a multi-billion dollar deportation industrial complex to meet its reported goal of arresting 3,000 immigrants a ...

The Relay Computers and the life of George Stibitz have already been examined in other sections of this site. Here we will pay attention only to his pioneering work in the field of remote access to a ...

Charles Babbage was a mathematician and polymath born in 1791, the son of a wealthy textile merchant. He studied mathematics at Cambridge and eventually became a Lucasian professor of mathematics. At ...

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