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Updated 2026-06-30 19:55 UTC 1 source Neutral

Scientific American explored the use of Lagrangians in physics, while also reporting on China’s LineShine supercomputer topping global rankings with nearly 2 quadrillion calculations per second.

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Scientific American
The speedy machine displaces the U.S.’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s El Capitan at the top of the TOP500 rankings of the world’s fastest supercomputers
2026-06-30 17:00 UTC
Scientific American
How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.
2026-06-30 18:00 UTC
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