Math
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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When Laziness Pays: Math explains how cooperation and cheating evolve
Researchers have developed a mathematical model that helps explain how cooperation and cheating evolve among simple organisms.
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Artful Routes
Finding the shortest routes linking cities can also produce intricate continuous-line portraits.
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Pennies in a Tray
Packing pennies in circular trays can lead to intriguing mathematical complexities.
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Take a Chance
Researchers are helping to turn the art of generating randomness into a precise science.
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Con Artist: Scanning program can discern true art
A new mathematical tool distills painting style into an array of statistics as a potential means to spot forgeries.
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Proof clarifies a map-folding problem
Researchers have developed an efficient algorithm to determine, given a collection of creases on a piece of paper, whether a sequence of simple folds produces a flat result, like a folded road map.
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