A physics department at a major university in the US is now offering a semester long course on “string theory.”
Yes, you read that right.
String. The things kids make bracelets out of.
The dumbing down of America continues…
2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹−1, discovered today, is the largest known prime. It's a Mersenne prime (2ᵖ-1), which are easier to find.
It took nearly 6 years for the GIMPS software to find it after the previous largest known prime. It was also the first Mersenne prime found using GPUs.