In this tutorial, we find and plot a catenary curve using GlowScript Python, walking through the math, physics, and code step by step. Learn how to model a hanging cable, visualize the curve, and ...

Guests: Glenn Close and John Waters. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovers the privileged lineages of Glenn Close and John Waters. Guests: Andy Cohen and Nina Totenberg. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces ...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. For the 12th season of PBS’s “Finding Your Roots” (8 p.m. Tuesday, WQED-TV), Pittsburgh-raised music star Wiz Khalifa is ...

Discover a fast and powerful calculus-based method for finding square roots with impressive accuracy. This explanation shows how derivatives and iterative approximation can be used to quickly zero in ...

The dreaded root canal may be necessary for good oral health, but it could also potentially lower inflammation and improve blood sugar and cholesterol, according to a new study. Researchers from ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

Roots, the outdoor lifestyle brand that was founded in Canada–has teamed up with a fellow Canuck, actor/director/comedian/entrepreneur Seth Rogen–for a brand new ...

When a Russian émigré documented the closing of a soul food restaurant in Washington, D.C., he discovered much in common with his own history. By Alexander Nazaryan Times Insider explains who we are ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Brent’s Method is a robust, efficient algorithm for finding zeros of functions, combining bisection, secant, and inverse quadratic interpolation. It is widely used in scientific computing. Adding ...

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