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On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge, sci-fi author, former professor, and father of the technological singularity concept, died from Parkinson's disease at age 79 on March 20, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vernor Vinge is one of the first thinkers to popularize a technological Singularity. Vernor Vinge, prolific science-fiction writer ...

Exploration of exotic quantum phase transitions has always been a focus in condensed matter physics. Critical phenomena in a phase transition are entirely determined by the universality class, which ...

Certain stealthy spacetime curiosities might be less hidden than thought, potentially exposing themselves to observers in some curved universes. These oddities, known as singularities, are points in ...