While children dress up as ghosts and goblins for halloween and get their bags and orange plastic pumpkins filled with candy, there's a ghoul in the night sky above and it's called Algol, the Demon ...

Ok, you caught us. It certainly isn’t going to be the year of Algol. When you think of “old” programming languages, you usually think of FORTRAN and COBOL. You should also think of LISP. But only a ...

With the Algoland campaign, Algorand is using gamified challenges to showcase what sets its blockchain apart, offering both newcomers and seasoned users a way to learn by doing and win along the way.

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There’s a demon in the early-morning sky, amid the stars of Perseus the Hero. Second-magnitude Algol (Beta Persei) is also famously known as the Demon Star, and you can spot it two hours before ...

Algol (Beta Persei), the second brightest star in the constellation Perseus, exhibits regular variations in brightness observable without a telescope. This variability is due to a binary star system ...

In this artist's view, the larger, cooler star in the Algol pair deeply eclipses the smaller, brighter star every 2.9 days. We can easily see the eclipse as a dramatic change in Algol's brightness.

Abstract: Algol was a high-level programming language, created by American and European mathematicians in the late 1950s. It sparked a wave of debates, projects and counter-projects, and remained ...

These photos contrast the star Algol at normal brightness (left) and when it's eclipsed by a close companion star 2.9 days later. Algol is located in the constellation Perseus, which is shaped liked a ...