Short answer: they don’t. But striking teachers often receive a bit of financial help during a strike from money they themselves have already paid to their unions.
An online collective, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, crunched numbers for days on end to discover a new prime number in December 2017. Here’s why it’s so important.
It is the 20th aniversary of Carl Sagan’s sci-fi film, Contact - and a great time to celebrate its legacy and revisit its main premise of Science vs. Religion.