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Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy
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Mathematicians Outwit Hidden Number Conspiracy

Decades ago, a mathematician posed a warmup problem for some of the most difficult questions about prime numbers. It turned out to be just as difficult to solve...

In Lockdown, Mathematicians Crack a Stubborn Geometry Riddle
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In Lockdown, Mathematicians Crack a Stubborn Geometry Riddle

Mathematicians Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb solved the century-old rectangular peg problem in geometry by brainstorming and holding weekly Zoom calls during the...

Mathematician Solves Computer Science Conjecture in Two Pages
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Mathematician Solves Computer Science Conjecture in Two Pages

The sensitivity conjecture stumped many top computer scientists for decades, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet. ...

Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies
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Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies

This is a story of getting the good out of the bad, said Mario Jurić.

A Revealer of Secrets in the Data of Life and the ­niverse
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A Revealer of Secrets in the Data of Life and the ­niverse

In statistics, abstract math meets real life. To find meaning in unruly sets of raw numbers, statisticians like Donald Richards first look for associations: statistical...

Plunge Into a (virtual Reality) Black Hole
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Plunge Into a (virtual Reality) Black Hole

Imagine, in the frigid depths of space, a pair of immense black holes crashing together so violently that they shake the fabric of space and time.

Wanted: More Data, the Dirtier the Better
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Wanted: More Data, the Dirtier the Better

To distill a clear message from growing piles of unruly genomics data, researchers often turn to meta-analysis—a tried-and-true statistical procedure for combining...
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