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How Viruses May Have Led to Complex Life

By Jeanette Kazmierczak
January 24, 2017
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Without viruses, we might never have evolved.

Photo of raindrops on a window by Philip Kraaijenbrink
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Droplets That ‘Come to Life’

By Natalie Wolchover
January 20, 2017
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Life might have originated in droplets that behave surprisingly like living cells.

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Graph Isomorphism Vanquished — Again

By Erica Klarreich
January 14, 2017
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Just five days after posting a retraction, László Babai announced that he had fixed the error in his landmark graph isomorphism algorithm.

Hyperbolic Crochet
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How Curvature Makes a Shape a Shape

By Kevin Hartnett
January 9, 2017
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The ancient study of an object’s curvature is guiding mathematicians toward a new understanding of simple equations.

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Complexity Theory Problem Strikes Back

By Erica Klarreich
January 5, 2017
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The legendary graph isomorphism problem may be harder than a 2015 result seemed to suggest.

Julia Set Contest
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Test Your Mathematical Sculpting Skills

By Kevin Hartnett
January 5, 2017
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Can you turn a two-dimensional fractal into a 3-D object? Break out your scissors and tape for a chance to win a 3-D printed sculpture.

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On the Moon’s Far Side, Clues to a Cataclysm?

By Jeanette Kazmierczak
December 22, 2016
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A mission to collect samples from the far side of the moon could answer questions about a barrage of asteroids nearly 4 billion years ago.

Warped time. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine
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Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem

By Natalie Wolchover
December 1, 2016
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The effort to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity means reconciling totally different notions of time.

LHC Collision Events - Visualization
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The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics

By Kevin Hartnett
November 18, 2016
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How do physicists reconstruct what really happened in a particle collision? Through calculations that are so challenging that, in some cases, they simply can’t be done. Yet.


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