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eye get it

A Single Math Model Explains Many Mysteries of Vision

Aug 25, 2019 8:00 AM

that's settled

A Major Proof Shows How to Approximate Numbers Like Pi

Aug 18, 2019 7:00 AM

HOT MESS

Fractal Patterns Offer Clues to the Universe's Origin

Aug 11, 2019 7:00 AM

boolean functions

A Decades-Old Computer Science Puzzle Was Solved in Two Pages

Aug 4, 2019 7:00 AM

Physics

Quantum Darwinism Could Explain What Makes Reality Real

Jul 28, 2019 7:00 AM

symmetry

The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries

Jul 14, 2019 8:00 AM

event horizons

A ‘Sonic Black Hole' Could Help Solve a Cosmic Paradox

Jun 30, 2019 8:00 AM

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Quantum Computers Could Be True Randomness Generators

Jun 23, 2019 8:00 AM

big bang

Cosmologists Clash Over the Beginning of the Universe

Jun 16, 2019 8:00 AM

Schrödinger's cat

Physicists See a Quantum Leap, Halt It, and Reverse It

Jun 9, 2019 8:00 AM

ant man

At 90, E. O. Wilson Thrives on Being a Scientific Provocateur

Jun 2, 2019 8:00 AM

butterfly effect

These Hidden Women Helped Invent Chaos Theory

May 26, 2019 8:00 AM

size-mology

The Mystifying Case of the Missing Planets

May 19, 2019 8:00 AM

black hot

A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All Over the Universe

May 12, 2019 8:00 AM

exotic materials

Physicists Are Bewitched by Twisted Graphene's 'Magic Angle'

May 5, 2019 8:00 AM

gone fishin'

Scientists Discover Nearly 200,000 Kinds of Ocean Viruses

Apr 28, 2019 8:00 AM

Ecosystems

A Blazing Hot Coal Seam Shows How Microbes Can Spring to Life

Apr 21, 2019 8:00 AM

chimera state

The Math of How Crickets, Starlings, and Neurons Sync Up

Apr 7, 2019 10:00 AM

Quanta

How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception, and Meaning

Mar 31, 2019 7:00 AM

biophysics

The Mysterious Math of How Cells Determine Their Own Fate

Mar 24, 2019 8:00 AM