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Scientists Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis have won this year’s Abel Prize, which is considered one of the…
Jan 17
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You enter a cave. At the end of a dark corridor, you encounter a pair of sealed chambers. Inside each chamber is an…
Nov 15 2019
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China has been using an equation to produce fake organ donation data, according to researchers who used a forensic…
Sep 18 2019
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Just on the heels of finding three cubed numbers that sum to 42, scientists have passed another important milestone…
Sep 6 2019
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We all know that 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, thanks to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the…
Mar 19 2019
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Trailblazing mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck from the University of Texas at Austin has been awarded the 2019 Abel…
Sep 25 2018
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There are six outstanding math problems that, if solved, will net you a $1 million reward. On Monday, a highly…
May 2 2018
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Mathematician Kokichi Sugihara, of Meiji University in Japan, once again proves he’s the greatest illusion inventor…
Mar 29 2018
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For decades, scientists have debated the cause of the popping sound when we crack our knuckles. Using computer…
Jan 5 2018
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Using a computer powered by an off-the-shelf Intel Core i5-6600 processor, a FedEx employee from Tennessee has…
Nov 28 2017
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It can be easy to take hyped-up science papers as fact, especially when they involve the most esoteric imaginable…
Nov 3 2017
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We wouldn’t blame you for thinking that Julius Horsthuis spent weeks designing and animating his sci-fi short, Frakta…
Oct 23 2017
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Some numbers don’t change. These values are deeply connected to the very fabric of the Universe and our human…
Sep 22 2017
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Even if you don’t know much physics, you probably know one of its core tenets: an object at rest stays at rest, and…
Sep 14 2017
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The number zero is something we all take for granted, yet its conceptual origin has eluded archaeologists and…
Sep 1 2017
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A popular chess problem known as the Queen’s Puzzle has captivated mathematicians and computer scientists for years,…
Aug 25 2017
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Australian scientists have managed to crack the code of a mysterious 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet,…
Aug 22 2017
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In Julius Horsthuis’ short film Recurrence, he takes the audience on a slow descent into a sprawling metropolis he’s…
Jul 18 2017
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You are very lucky that you ended up about the size that you are today, somewhere between one and ten feet tall and…
Jul 10 2017
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One of the most well-accepted physical theories makes no logical sense. Quantum mechanics, the theory that governs…