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U.S. science policy needs to heed global realities
Comment by Steven Hyman, provost of Harvard University
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- Math
The squint method of data analysis
Mathematicians discover a Klein bottle hidden within the data underlying photographs
- Physics
John Wheeler (1911-2008)
SN Editor in Chief Tom Siegfried remembers the late physicist John Wheeler, who coined the term "black hole" in 1967, with excerpts from conversations the two had engaged in over the past two decades.
- Math
Sensitivity to the harmony of things
The work of Alexandre Grothendieck has transformed math the way the Internet has transformed communication: Once you’re used to it, you can’t imagine what life was like before it.
