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New math on wrinkle patterns
A few minutes at a 2018 talk at the University of Michigan, Ian Tobasco picked up a large sheet of…
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A graduate student’s side project proving a prime number conjecture
like atoms In arithmetic, prime numbers always occupy a special place on the number line. The current, Jared Duker Lichtman,…
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How Resonance Physics Shapes Reality
Almost any time physicists announced that they have discovered a new particle, whether it is a Higgs boson or a…
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Mathematicians overcome some hidden ‘conspiracy’
Intuition tells mathematicians that adding 2 to a number completely changes its multiplication structure — that is, there is no…
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Why some animals can know more from less
However, phylogeny can only tell scientists so much. The team wondered if the difference might have something to do with…
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Euler’s 243-year-old ‘Impossible’ puzzle has a quantum solution
Latin quantum squares were quickly accepted by a community of theoretical physicists and mathematicians interested in their unusual properties. Last…
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At the dawn of life, heat may have accelerated cell division
An elegant ballet of proteins that allow modern cells to regenerate themselves. During cell division, structural proteins and enzymes coordinate…
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Algorithm allows particle physicists to count higher than 2
Thomas Gehrmann recalls One day 20 years ago, a cataclysm of mathematical expressions flooded his computer screen. He was trying…
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Cosmologists study the laws of logic for the Big Bang
Overall, the universe started off pretty smoothly, but thinking goes on, but quantum shakes space with tiny particles of matter.…
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A new theory for systems against Newton’s third law
The flocks of birds can also be thought of as breaking symmetry: Instead of flying in random directions, they align…
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