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A guitar is much more than a set of strings being dragged over a piece of timber. It is a narrator–a tool which could whisper, yell, or sing the sweet truth. Behind each chord is a complicated ...

Peter Waldman Artisan, glassblower, and balloon man. Peter Waldman is never without a balloon. Even out to dinner, he will pause and twist up a creation if there’s a child nearby. For the past 40 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: String theory—the idea that particles are not point-like, but instead one-dimensional strings—is a popular theoretical framework that attempts to ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

It’s tricky to measure a snake, especially in the wild, says Beki Hooper. Given that they are, basically, one long line, this might be a bit of a surprise, but snakes rarely cooperate with a ruler – ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Follow these steps to find the length of a String in Java: Declare a variable of type String ...

How to find the size of a Java array? To find the size or length of a Java array, follow these four steps Declare a variable of type array. Initialize the Java array to a non-null value. Use the ...

Burmese pythons—like this one photographed at Everglades National Park—are decimating animal populations in South Florida. NPS / R. Cammauf Burmese pythons in Florida have been known to swallow large ...