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  1. Math

    Born half a century ago, chaos theory languished for years

    By Tom Siegfried
  2. Space

    Belief in multiverse requires exceptional vision

    If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist. That’s an old philosophy, one that many scientists swallowed whole. But as Ziva David of NCIS would say, it’s total salami. After all, you can’t see bacteria and viruses, but they can still kill you. Yet some scientists still invoke that philosophy to deny the scientific status […]

    By Tom Siegfried
  3. Space

    Long the stuff of fantasy, wormholes may be coming soon to a telescope near you

    For decades now, black holes have been the rock stars of popular astrophysics, both fact and fiction.