Month: August 2013
Sleep Paralysis
Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon in which people, either when falling asleep or wakening, temporarily experience an inability to move. More formally, it is a [...]
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian born and later inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his [...]
Leibniz and Newton
In the seventeenth century, the philosophy of space and time came as a central issue in epist and metaphysics. At its heart, Gottfried Leibniz, the German [...]
Albert Einstein
In 1905, Albert Einstein published a paper on a special theory of relativity, in which he proposed that space and time be combined into a single construct [...]
Million-digit prime found
Curtis Cooper, a mathematician and computer science professor at the University of Central Missouri, has discovered the largest known prime number to date [...]