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- Silk: Mimicking how spiders make their complex array of silks could usher in a tapestry of new materials, and other animals or plants could be designed to be the producers
- Itch: Scientists trace a new path behind the maddening, unrelenting, screaming desire to scratch
- Half-life (more or less): Physicists are stirred by claims that the sun may change what’s unchangeable—the rate of radioactive decay
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The current U.S. Supreme Court of nine judges behaves as if it were made up of 4.68 "ideal" justices who make their decisions completely independently, a mathematical analysis suggests. (p. 405)Published: June 28th, 2003; Vol.163 #26Found in: Science & Society -
Mathematicians have returned to the drawing board after what looked like a dramatic step forward in understanding prime numbers. (p. 350)Published: May 31st, 2003; Vol.163 #22Found in: Numbers
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Home / News / April 26th, 2003; Vol.163 #17 / Spheres in Disguise: Solid proof offered for famous conjectureA Russian mathematician has proposed a proof of the Poincaré conjecture, a question about the shapes of three-dimensional spaces. (p. 259)Published: April 26th, 2003; Vol.163 #17Found in: Numbers
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Mathematicians have taken a significant step toward proving the twin-prime conjecture by simplifying formulas for estimating the average spacing of primes. (p. 195)Published: March 29th, 2003; Vol.163 #13Found in: Numbers
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