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The White House is proposing a major overhaul of U.S. research funding, shifting billions of dollars away from traditional university channels toward individual scientists and AI-driven tools. The plan argues that reducing bureaucracy could speed up scientific breakthroughs by giving researchers more direct access to resources. Critics are likely to question whether moving funds away from universities could weaken the institutions that support long-term research and training. #whitehouse #usa #n

The surprising math and physics behind the 2026 World Cup soccer ball

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Graham's number is an immense number that originated from a problem in Ramsey theory in mathematics. It's so large that it's impossible to write out using ordinary notation—even if you used the smallest possible font and filled the entire observable universe with paper, you still couldn't contain all its digits. Here are the key details: • Origin: The number was introduced by mathematician Ronald Graham in the 1970s while he was working on a problem about coloring the edges of high-dimensional c