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Alexander Smith’s work on the Goldfeld conjecture reveals fundamental characteristics of elliptic curves.
Evidence for life in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks appears to be crumbling away.
By using the power of evolution to solve practical problems, three researchers opened new avenues to chemical discovery.
Three researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in laser physics. The winners include a woman for the first time in 55 years.
The availability of 16 new mouse genomes will help accelerate research into the genetic underpinnings of human traits and diseases.
James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing ways to unleash the immune system more effectively against cancers.
By measuring mechanical forces inside an embryo for the first time, researchers have shown how a physical “jamming” mechanism assists development.
Astronomers have known where the universe’s missing matter has been hiding for the past 20 years. So why did it take so long to find it?
In math, sometimes the most common things are the hardest to find.
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