You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

In this simulation, 66 of the 100 needles crossed a line (you can count ’em). Using this number, we get a value of pi at 3.0303—which is not 3.14—but it's not terrible for just 100 needles. With ...

Qwen3.5 family: Fireworks of new LLMs from Alibaba

Many Qwen LLMs are among the most popular models on Hugging Face (Fig. 1). Qwen is continuously developing the models: after the convincing Qwen3 release in April 2025, the provider introduced a new ...

Decades-old problem in classical geometry solved: First compact pair of bonnets found

For over 150 years, a rule of thumb dating back to the French mathematician Pierre Ossian Bonnet has been accepted in surface ...
The Lancet

Identification of drug repurposing candidates for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using electronic health records: a retrospective cohort study

To our knowledge, this analysis is the largest EHR-based study for identifying drug repurposing candidates for ALS. We identified several drugs that warrant further assessment as therapeutic options ...