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Maple is a nice enough program, but it keeps me in a steady supply of WTF moments in the course of using it, and sometimes it does bizarre things that drive me up the wall. Here’s one I just can’t figure out. I’m trying to make a plot of y = 120 - e^(-0.2x). This graph should have a horizontal…

Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have succeeded in producing a Bose-Einstein condensate -- a dense, ultracold gas that behaves as a single atom -- using hydrogen atoms. The achievement, which was reported by the scientists at the recent Conference on Precision Measurement, in…

Oakland, California -- The chancellor of the California State University System since 1982, W. Ann Reynolds, has resigned amid a growing political controversy over unusually large pay raises for the system’s top administrators, including a 43-per-cent increase in her own salary. Ms. Reynolds, who…