This video explores the historical, cultural, and practical reasons the United States continues to use customary units, and ...

One of the most outstanding problems of the standard model of cosmology today is the problem of cosmological constant/dark energy. It corresponds to about 73 per cent of the energy content of the ...

Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein is now out on Netflix, with the monster (played by Jacob Elordi) shown to be far more human than his titular creator. The ending of the Netflix film differs from both ...

Do you know what all of the U.S. Marine Corps special operations units are? Even though the Marine Corps only has one true special operations unit, that being the Marine Raiders (MARSOC), there are a ...

Spetsnaz is an abbreviation of the Russian term for “special purpose forces.” However, the term Spetsnaz has come to describe all specialized units in the Russian military, law enforcement and ...

The United States is one of just three countries that "prefers" imperial measurements over the international metric standard. The motivation why has less to do with official policy than you might ...

Back when I was a Catholic-school kid in northern Wisconsin, my school lessons briefly focused on the metric system. This was in the late 1970s. Along with learning cursive and the referents of rosary ...

Jeffy Mai was the Associate Editor for Eater’s Midwest region, and has been covering Chicago’s dining scene for over a decade. Metric Coffee has made its way to Avondale with Milli, a sprawling cafe ...

CPUs and GPUs are old news. These days, the cutting edge is all about NPUs, and hardware manufacturers are talking up NPU performance. The NPU is a computer component designed to accelerate AI tasks ...

ABSTRACT: This paper provides concrete evidence that the expanding and accelerating Universe mathematically expressed by dark energy is a purely mathematical abstraction. The energy loss of photons ...