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Math's 'Bunkbed Conjecture' Has Been Debunked

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New elliptic curve breaks 18-year-old record

The Cosmos Teams with Complex Organic Molecules

Physicists spot quantum tornadoes twirling in a ‘supersolid’

The Cosmos Teems with Complex Organic Molecules

How public key cryptography works, using only simple math

The Eukaryote, the First Cell to Get Organized

It might be possible to detect gravitons after all

Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan

Even a single bacterial cell can sense the seasons changing

Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time

How the human brain contends with the strangeness of zero

The Eukaryote, the First Cell to Get Organized

Plants find light using gaps between their cells

'Quantum Memory' Proves Exponentially Powerful

Big advance on simple-sounding math problem was a century in the making

Computer scientists combine two 'beautiful' proof methods

The World of Electrostatic Ecology

The 'Beautiful Confusion' of the First Billion Years Comes into View

Statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown

The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constants change

John Wheeler saw the tear in reality

Operator algebras and the substructure of space and time

The Unraveling of Space-Time

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Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time

Groups underpin modern math

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