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Particle Physicists Puzzle Over a New Duality
Once found, these inscrutable rules have helped particle physicists calculate scattering amplitudes at much higher levels of precision than they…
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The Hidden Chaos That Lurks in Ecosystems
By the early ’90s, ecologists had amassed enough time-series data sets on species populations and enough computing power to test…
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Hypergraphs Reveal a Solution to a 50-Year-Old Problem
The goal here is to trace out triangles on top of these lines such that the triangles satisfy two requirements:…
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Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth
“Each one of those kinds of pyrite is telling us something different about our planet, its origin, about life, and…
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Meet the Ukrainian Number Theorist Who Won Math’s Highest Honor
In late February, just weeks after Maryna Viazovska learned she had won a Fields Medal—the highest honor for a mathematician—Russian…
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The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses
Since leptin is released by fat cells, scientists believe its presence in the blood is likely to signal to the…
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Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light
On the eve of this new era of moon landings, a slew of fresh studies of PSRs have revealed that…
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Astronomers Radically Reimagine the Making of the Planets
Start at the center, with the sun. Our middle-aged star may be more placid than most, but it is otherwise…
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A Grad Student’s Side Project Proves a Prime Number Conjecture
as the atoms of arithmetic, prime numbers have always occupied a special place on the number line. Now, Jared Duker…
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Reshuffled Rivers Bolster the Amazon’s Hyper-Biodiversity
From the window of a passenger plane flying over the Amazon, the view is breathtaking. “It’s just miles across of…
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