The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof | Quanta Magazine
By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians have gained important new insights into the nature of graphs.
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Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia? | Quanta Magazine
The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet.
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What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About? | Quanta Magazine
Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean.
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The Moon May Have Been Created in Just Five Hours - Nautilus
Researchers played out the impact between Earth and the hypothetical ancient planet Theia
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A Danish painter’s studio is up for sale on the Tisvilde coast - The Spaces
The 1961 property is registered as a holiday home
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‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point.
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Envy at the Ballot Box - Nautilus
The bedrock of democracy is collective decision-making and majority rule—but does voting always lead to the best outcomes?
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Schizophrenia’s Cruel Roulette Wheel - Nautilus
Schizophrenia's Cruel Roulette Wheel: Genetics and stress can combine in ways we don’t yet fully understand
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Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time | Quanta Magazine
No one yet knows which technology will power the quantum computers of the future, but the race to create them has already produced some of science’s most intricate machinery.
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Babies Born Under Sugar Rationing Grew Into Adults with Lower Cancer Risk
Babies Born Under Sugar Rationing Grew Into Adults with Lower Cancer Risk: Britain’s postwar sugar rationing was an accidental experiment.
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How the Ancient Greeks Interpreted Their Dreams
How the Ancient Greeks Interpreted Their Dreams: Certain concepts such as metaphor may derive from early dream interpretation
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