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New Number Systems Seek Their Lost Primes
...and Hendrik Lenstra, who recently retired from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Together they formulated the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, which are a series of predictions about how frequently particular kinds of...
‘Digital Alchemist’ Seeks Rules of Emergence
...the way they’re changing constantly — people have been seeing those patterns since people were on the planet,” she said. “But only recently have scientists started to ask the question,...
A Long-Sought Proof, Found and Almost Lost
...and that some of his other recent work related to the GCI has offered further improvements. As for the proof’s muted reception, Royen wasn’t particularly disappointed or surprised. “I am...
Is It Friday the 13th Again?
How our society defines years, months and weeks can seem frustratingly arbitrary. Can you bring order to our unruly calendar? [No Caption] In some of our recent Insights puzzles, we’ve...
A Map of Human History, Hidden in DNA
...recent weeklong hackathon. He and his students and postdocs set aside their daily obligations to stay up late eating takeout and crunching data. This isn’t to say that Novembre, a...
Manjul Bhargava: The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
The search for artistic truth and beauty has led Manjul Bhargava to some of the most profound recent discoveries in number theory. Video produced by the Simons Foundation, with the...
The Secret Power of the Cell’s Waste Bin
...of Cell and Developmental Biology, “The Lysosome as a Regulatory Hub.” Its authors, the San Francisco Bay Area researchers Rushika Perera and Roberto Zoncu, observed that recent studies have “raised...
A Cosmic-Ray Hunter Takes to the Sky
...sparsely and haphazardly — their paths skewed by the galaxy’s magnetic field — that they leave few clues about their origin. In recent years, a hazy “hot spot” of the...
Can Darwinian Evolution Explain Lamarckism?
...century and that Darwinism won, leading to Lamarckism’s demise and the rise of what biologists call the Modern Synthesis. But recent discoveries have exhibited a remarkably Lamarckian flavor. One example...