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This small JavaScript library provides for automatically parsing JSON date strings to real JavaScript dates as part of regular JSON parsing. You can parse either individual date values or complex ...

MicroQuickJS is a new project from Fabrice Bellard, who has created many other open-source projects, including QEMU, FFmpeg, ...

“The process of music is from brain to someone’s ear, basically. The less that gets in the way of that little journey, the better,” Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones once said. “Strings are the link ...

String theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a patch of space, the theory says, and you won’t see a menagerie of ...

When it comes to guitar strings, one of the common questions that crops up is, ‘What is the difference between coated and uncoated guitar strings?’. Coated strings cost more, but where does that money ...

February 14, 2024, 1:52 PM · Did you know that the storied virtuoso Niccolò Paganini was actually the first violinist to endorse Pirastro strings, back in the early 19th century? This was just one ...

WHEN Joseph Conlon was an undergraduate in the early 2000s, he avoided popular science accounts of string theory because he wanted to engage with it on a technical level, without preconceptions. It ...

Many models of the universe predict the existence of countless invisible strings stretching across space. New research finds a way these strings might snap — and how we could feel the fallout. When ...

String theory found its origins in an attempt to understand the nascent experiments revealing the strong nuclear force. Eventually another theory, one based on particles called quarks and force ...