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What do Euclid, twelve-years-old Einstein, and American president James Garfield have in common? They all came up with elegant proofs of the famous Pythagorean theorem, one of the most fundamental rules of geometry and the basis for innumerable practical applications,

Humans are often described as “language animals”, implying that the ability to communicate linguistically makes humans unique. Big-Tech giants are pushing artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technologies to build machines capable of talking and writing to a such a

In the second half of the XVII century, the Dutch scientist Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek described the wonderful worlds revealed by his amazing microscopium in hundreds of letters sent to the Royal Society of London. In this correspondence he told of the first microscopic

The race to the conquest of the space was not the only field of science in which Americans and Soviets had been rivalling each other between the ‘50s and the ‘70s, the age (in)famously known as the Cold War. Weapons

I have a personal theory about life, death and reincarnation. I can’t remember when I started thinking of our lives as characters of a videogame, in which somebody in the future is using “lives” as in any typical role-playing game

Unless you are among the crew of space-enterprise enthusiasts, that is a peculiar species of kids from the late 1950s to which I myself belong, very few remember how the Salyut–7 Soviet low-Earth orbiting space station famously “died” in 1985, when a loss of power from a short-circuit shut

Of all the branches of mathematics that most directly touch our daily life, statistics is likely the worst understood by laymen. We all have heard jokes like “you can twist numbers to prove pretty much anything”, or the infamous  “according to statistics, if you eat

During the quarter-finals match Argentina vs. England of the 1986 FIFA World Cup, Diego Armando Maradona scored a famous goal that opened the way to the victory of the match, and to Argentina’s final winning of the football championship. Famously

In one of my recent posts, I hinted at the practical paradox presented by the “electric” Aharonov-Bohm effect, in that such a phenomenon should affect charges traversing a region where an electric field existed previously. This singular and counter-intuitive effect of dissociation of

Among the many fields of physics that I enjoyed touching in my scientific life, some with more depth, some others just for a little bit of fun, there is also fusion research, albeit from some distance. I was still with