Math
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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Founder of the Secret Society of Mathematicians
Henri Cartan, one of the leaders of a revolution in mathematics, dies at 104.
- Physics
It’s Likely That Times Are Changing
A century ago, mathematician Hermann Minkowski famously merged space with time, establishing a new foundation for physics; today physicists are rethinking how the two should fit together
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Seeing in four dimensions
Mathematicians create videos that help in visualizing four-dimensional objects.
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Do subatomic particles have free will?
Math Trek: If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove.
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Welcome to the Quantum Internet
Quantum encryption is here, but the laws of physics can do much more than protect privacy.
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A Quasi-quasicrystal
Quasicrystals are bizarre, rare, mysterious materials blending mathematical order and irregularity. A new, unexpected material halfway between a regular crystal and a quasicrystal may help reveal their secrets.
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A building of bubbles
Math Trek: The National Aquatics Center in Beijing, newly built for the Olympics, is a glowing cube of bubbles. The mathematics behind it are built around Lord Kelvin's tetrakaidecahedra and the physics of foam.
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The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Leonard Mlodinow, Pantheon Books, 2008, 272 p., $24.95.
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Scooping the political pollsters
Who will win the election in November? A technique from baseball stats may predict the answer.
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Strategy to stop a pandemic
A limited supply of vaccine shots, if targeted well, could stop the spread of disease.
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Optimizing leafy networks
Scientists reveal a mathematical principle underlying the arrangement of leaf veins in plant species.
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