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- Math
Questionable Numbers for a Questionable Remedy
Echinacea might be useful as a cold remedy or preventative, but science hasn't shown it yet.
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- Math
Mathematical Police Find Security Bug
Cryptographers uncover potential weakness in encryption algorithms.
- Computing
Social Networking for Zebras
Scientists are developing a new branch of network theory to understand zebra communities.
- Math
A Video That’s Worth a Million Words
Award-winning video reveals the simplicity and beauty of an abstract mathematical tool.
- Math
A Video That’s Worth a Million Words
Award-winning video reveals the simplicity and beauty of an abstract mathematical tool.
- Math
Good Stories, Good Math
Young children who show sophisticated story-telling skills go on to demonstrate greater mathematical ability.
- Math
Math on Fire
A supercomputer model fed by real-time data is beginning to make sense of the seemingly unpredictable movement of wildfires.
- Math
Mathematical Fortune-Telling
A researcher uses game theory to predict the outcome of political and business challenges, including the current dispute with Iran over nuclear technology.
- Humans
The Ignobility of Wrinkles
A theoretical study of the way skin, apple peel, and bedsheets wrinkle has won this year's Ig Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Math
A Tangled Tale
A piece of string tumbled over and over quickly develops knots, explaining why your headphone cords are always in a tangle.
- Math
A Prayer for Archimedes
A long-lost work by Archimedes shows his subtle grasp of the notion of infinity, and how close he was to developing calculus.
