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A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s At...
An organelle discovered inside a microbe inside a cow’s gut helps explain how...
A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds ...
Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across math...
Fields and Abacus Medals 2026
Every four years, the math world’s preeminent awards are given to the finest ...
How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding?
One of the most contested issues in astrophysics is our understanding of the ...
Amid Life’s Chaos, a Meticulous Mathematician Finds ...
Before he won a Fields Medal for his pioneering work balancing randomness and...
The Quietest Mathematician Has Always Been Worth Lis...
John Pardon sees connections between different areas of math that others don’...
Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before An...
Determination and effort propelled Jacob Tsimerman to the top of the math wor...
Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the N...
Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong ...
The Organisms That Make Earth’s Harshest Places Home
Extremophiles that thrive in the most unforgiving environments aren’t just bi...
Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind
The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest o...
Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow
Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermod...
Why Am I Left-Handed?
An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fiel...
We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can ...
Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their...
Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?
Astronomer David Kipping discusses why claims of extraterrestrial life keep d...
Is Life Just Different?
The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves...
Researchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’
When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, y...