In October 1984 I arrived at Oxford University, trailing a large steamer trunk containing a couple of changes of clothing and about five dozen textbooks. I had a freshly minted bachelor’s degree in ...

A string trimmer gets into places that a lawn mower can’t. It’s the ideal tool for keeping the edges of your garden or walkway neat and tidy, and for manicuring around fence poles and tree trunks. It ...

The Lansing, Michigan-born bluegrass player Billy Strings (born William Apostol) is one of the most important people in music today. With his charm, love of music and music history, and his ...

The number pi (π) appears in the most unlikely places. It can be found in circles, of course—as well as in pendulums, springs and river bends. This everyday number is linked to transcendental ...

A string farm in Minecraft is one of the simplest farms that a player can make. String can be used to make useful gear like bows, crossbows, or fishing rods, doubles as furnace fuel, or even turned ...

To install the DICOM Manipulation Tools, copy all MATLAB .m files from this repository into your MATLAB path. If installing as a submodule into another git repository ...

An intrauterine device (IUD) is a small, T-shaped piece of plastic with one or two thin, plastic strings that hang from the bottom of the “T” through the cervix and into the vaginal canal. If you have ...

When Leah Menzies, a 20-year-old college student in Australia, nervously entered her boyfriend's family home, she anticipated the typical rituals of meeting parents for the first time. And it sure ...

String theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a patch of space, the theory says, and you won’t see a menagerie of ...

Text has long been customizable in Xcode when creating software for Apple's platforms. Now, String catalogs make it even easier to localize your app to multiple languages. Ever since macOS shipped in ...

Many models of the universe predict the existence of countless invisible strings stretching across space. New research finds a way these strings might snap — and how we could feel the fallout. When ...