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Introducing ways of defining and working with Infinite values in Python.

∀ x ∈ ℝ, -∞ < x < ∞

Every number is smaller than positive infinity and bigger than negative infinity.

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Now if we could just somehow convince the Chinese to come up with 300 billion to counter this.

Beijing says bill seeks to exaggerate ‘so-called China threat’ and is ‘full of cold war thinking’

Life on Mars may be freeze-dried.

But there’s a solution: freeze-dry it.

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, a team of Japanese researchers freeze-dried samples of mice sperm and sent them aboard the ISS to see how well this crucial element of human life (and, well, a lot of life on Earth) will fair against the harsh radiation of space.

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The first-of-its-kind discovery, described as “a dream of many fiction writers,” is a huge leap forward in understanding how specimens — perhaps even humans — can be preserved for generations.

Biopesticide might become safer alternative to existing treatments.

A new study has revealed that humans — along with all other mammals and reptiles — have the capability of producing venom. The study, published on Monday (March 29) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said humans apparently have a “tool kit” to produce venom.

According to a report in Live Science, humans already produce a key protein used in many venom systems.

It said kallikreins, a kind of protein that digest other proteins, are secreted in saliva and are a key part of many venoms. They are a natural starting point for theoretically venomous humans.

Could this be the future of pizza?

Simply log onto the pizza maker’s mobile application, input the number and type of pizzas you want, and the machine will do the rest of the work.

Two of the zero-days used were patched by Microsoft on Tuesday.