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Jordana Cepelewicz

Exceptions to the Rule

‘Gem’ of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers

Aug 4, 2024 7:00 AM

Mathematics

A New Proof Moves the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem

Sep 17, 2023 8:00 AM

Subspace Design

Mathematicians Find Hidden Structure in a Common Type of Space

Jun 4, 2023 8:00 AM

Mathematics

‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks a Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture

Jan 29, 2023 8:00 AM

Number Theory

A Teenager Solved a Stubborn Prime Number ‘Look-Alike’ Riddle

Jan 15, 2023 8:00 AM

Against the Flow

A New Computer Proof ‘Blows Up’ Centuries-Old Fluid Equations

Dec 25, 2022 8:00 AM

Primitive Sets

A Grad Student’s Side Project Proves a Prime Number Conjecture

Jun 19, 2022 8:00 AM

All for 1

Math’s ‘Oldest Problem Ever’ Gets a New Answer

Mar 27, 2022 8:00 AM

Prime Time

Mathematicians Outwit a Hidden Number ‘Conspiracy’

Jan 30, 2022 8:00 AM

Gene Activity

To Learn More Quickly, Brain Cells Break Their DNA

Sep 5, 2021 8:00 AM

Counting Crows

Animals Can Count. How Far Does Their Number Sense Go?

Aug 15, 2021 8:00 AM

Molecular Biology

DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth

Jul 25, 2021 8:00 AM

Perception

The Secret Workings of Smell Receptors, Revealed At Last

Jun 27, 2021 8:00 AM

Worst Concert Ever

The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations

Apr 25, 2021 8:00 AM

Neuroscience

How to Be Humane to a Lab-Grown Brain

Jan 26, 2020 8:00 AM

family tree

Humans and Neanderthals Kept Breeding—and Breeding—for Ages

Sep 1, 2019 8:00 AM

biophysics

The Mysterious Math of How Cells Determine Their Own Fate

Mar 24, 2019 8:00 AM

nostalgia

How the Brain Keeps Its Memories in the Right Order

Feb 17, 2019 8:00 AM

ancestry

Clues to Our Unknown Ancestors Are Hiding in Our Genome

Feb 10, 2019 8:00 AM

Neural Nets

AI Has a Strange New Muse: Our Sense of Smell

Sep 23, 2018 7:00 AM