The U.S. Air Force says 137 airmen across the active duty, Guard and Reserve died by suicide in 2019, a 33% increase over the previous year. Officials confirmed the number last week after the ...

For Feynman, you see, the “magic number” is around 1/137 – specifically, it’s 1/137.03599913. Physicists know it as α, or the fine structure constant.

For the second consecutive week, August highlighted only 15 of the new cases were linked to college students. However, more than half the new cases, 75 of the 137, came from people younger than 40.

News Published: 23 May 1936 The Mysterious Number 137 Nature 137, 877 (1936) Cite this article ...