When Squares Learn to Walk in Doubly Weak Worlds

Mathematicians sometimes talk about structures that feel almost like language forged in geometry: a place where arrows, squares, and the ways they fit together don’t just exist, they cooperate. The latest work by Aaron David Fairbanks and Michael Shulman steps into one of the most stubborn corners of this landscape. It tackles double categories —…

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LHC’s New Limits: A Hidden World of Leptoquarks?

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), that magnificent atom-smasher nestled beneath the Franco-Swiss border, has yielded another intriguing clue in the hunt for physics beyond the Standard Model. A new study from researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, led by Arijit Das, Tanumoy Mandal, Subhadip Mitra, and Rachit Sharma, has significantly…

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Are Your Chips Secretly Plotting Against You?

Imagine buying a brand-new car, only to discover the brakes fail intermittently. Or entrusting your life savings to a bank, only to have the numbers randomly change. This isn’t a dystopian fantasy; it’s a growing reality in the world of computer chips, and it’s called Silent Data Corruption (SDC). A groundbreaking study from researchers at…

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Do holes guard against locking in bending plates?

Engineering teams frequently simulate bending plates with the Reissner–Mindlin model. It’s a workhorse because it captures bending and the plate’s rotation with manageable equations. But when the plate is very thin (t is small) and the domain has holes or mixed boundary constraints, the discretization can go astray. The numerical fix often behaves as if…

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