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By Apr 13, 2021
Health

Every US state has now vaccinated 10 percent of its residents

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By Jan 5, 2019
Science

Zero is just 1,500 years old. Before it, there was nothing.

How humans invented zero—and why some tried desperately to do without it.
By Sep 26, 2018
Science

A British mathematician thinks he’s cracked a secret worth a million bucks

But proving the Riemann Hypothesis isn't that simple.
By Jun 9, 2018
Animals

Honeybees are surprisingly great at math

Bees know something about nothing
By Jan 25, 2016
Environment

Is Climate Change Causing The Recent Streak Of Record-Setting Warm Years?

Odds are, yes
By Jan 30, 2015
Science

New Evidence That Baby Chicks Have Mental Number Lines Like Humans Do

Next thing you know, they'll be reciting multiplication tables
By Jun 11, 2014
Science

Soot, Comet Ice, And Medical Powders All Have This Number In Common

A new universal packing density for things made of small, rigid particles
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Clever Measures: Three Projects That Reimagine Conventional Calculating

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Data Harmony: How We Can Turn Piles of Raw Data Into Usable Knowledge

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Celebrating Benoit Mandelbrot, the Man Who Made Math Beautiful

As modern mathematicians go, few were better known or more celebrated than Benoit Mandelbrot. The father of fractals died late...