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   Math

   Fractal Roots and Artful Math

   The term “mathematical art” usually conjures up images of M.C. Escher’s endless staircases, Möbius-strip ants, and mind-boggling tilings. Or it might remind one of the intimate intertwining of mathematics and art during the Renaissance with the development of perspective painting and eye-teasing stagecraft. A view of the recent MathArt/ArtMath show at the Selby Gallery in […]

   By Ivars PetersonJune 6, 2002

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   Math

   Fractal Roots and Artful Math

   The term “mathematical art” usually conjures up images of M.C. Escher’s endless staircases, Möbius-strip ants, and mind-boggling tilings. Or it might remind one of the intimate intertwining of mathematics and art during the Renaissance with the development of perspective painting and eye-teasing stagecraft. A view of the recent MathArt/ArtMath show at the Selby Gallery in […]

   By Ivars PetersonJune 6, 2002

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   Math

   Computing on a Cellular Scale

   The behavior of leaf pores resembles that of mathematical systems known as cellular automata.

   By Ivars PetersonFebruary 20, 2004

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   Growing Up Online

   New studies probe some of the many ways, both good and bad, that children and teenagers use the Internet and adapt to online communication.

   By Bruce BowerJune 13, 2006

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   Animals

   Naked and Not

   The Damaraland mole rat may be less famous than its naked cousin, but both have some of the oddest social structures found in a mammal.

   By Susan MiliusJune 20, 2006

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   30 Hours with Team Slime Mold

   A bunch of biologists volunteer for a mad weekend of biodiversity surveying to see what's been overlooked right outside Washington, D.C.

   By Susan MiliusJuly 25, 2006

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   Math

   The Mind of the Swarm

   Mathematics is helping explain how animals form flocks, swarms, and schools.

   By Erica KlarreichNovember 20, 2006

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   Humans

   Science News of the Year 2006

   A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2006.

   By Science NewsDecember 20, 2006

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   Aphids with Attitude

   A few aphid species that live socially in groups raise their own armies of teenage female clones.

   By Susan MiliusJuly 1, 2002

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    Tech

    Pocket Sockets

    Keenly aware of user frustration with the short-lived batteries in cell phones and other portable electronics, researchers are rushing to work out the bugs in tiny fuel-cell power plants that will be as small as batteries—but last a lot longer and be refuelable.

    By Peter WeissSeptember 3, 2002

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    Plants

    Why Turn Red?

    Why leaves turn red is a stranger question than why they turn yellow.

    By Susan MiliusOctober 22, 2002

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    Science News of the Year 2002

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2002.

    By Science NewsDecember 17, 2002