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Biology

Networks Untangle Malaria’s Deadly Shuffle

By Veronique Greenwood
October 15, 2015
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By examining regions shared between some of nature’s most variable genes, malaria researchers are piecing together an understanding of a deadly parasite.

ecology

A Twisted Path to Equation-Free Prediction

By Gabriel Popkin
October 13, 2015
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Complex natural systems defy analysis using a standard mathematical toolkit, so one ecologist is throwing out the equations.

number theory

A Magical Answer to an 80-Year-Old Puzzle

By Erica Klarreich
October 1, 2015
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Using crowd-sourced and traditional mathematics research, Terence Tao has devised a solution to a long-standing problem posed by the legendary Paul Erdős.

Computer Science

A New Map Traces the Limits of Computation

By John Pavlus
September 29, 2015
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A major advance in computational complexity reveals deep connections between the classes of problems that computers can — and can’t — possibly do.

cryptography

A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption

By Natalie Wolchover
September 8, 2015
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In the drive to safeguard data from future quantum computers, cryptographers have stumbled upon a thin red line between security and efficiency.

cryptography

A New Design for Cryptography’s Black Box

By Kevin Hartnett
September 2, 2015
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A recent cryptographic breakthrough has proven difficult to put into practice. But new advances show how near-perfect computer security might be surprisingly close at hand.

profiles

A Life in Games

By Siobhan Roberts
August 28, 2015
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The mathematician John Horton Conway’s myriad accomplishments — including the Game of Life, sprouts and the surreal numbers — are the product of a mind at play.

Q&A

The Connoisseur of Number Sequences

By Erica Klarreich
August 6, 2015
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For more than 50 years, the mathematician Neil Sloane has curated the authoritative collection of interesting and important integer sequences.

mathematical physics

Famous Fluid Equations Are Incomplete

By Natalie Wolchover
July 21, 2015
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A 115-year effort to bridge the particle and fluid descriptions of nature has led mathematicians to an unexpected answer.


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