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astrophysics

Strange Stars Pulse to the Golden Mean

By Natalie Wolchover
March 10, 2015
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Nature has revealed peculiar mathematical objects that connect order and chaos.

2014 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize

A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos

By Thomas Lin +1 authors
Erica Klarreich
August 12, 2014
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Artur Avila’s solutions to ubiquitous problems in chaos theory have “changed the face of the field,” earning him Brazil’s first Fields Medal.

Biology

The New Science of Evolutionary Forecasting

By Carl Zimmer
July 17, 2014
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Newly discovered patterns in evolution may help scientists make accurate short-term predictions.

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quantum physics

Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality

By Natalie Wolchover
June 24, 2014
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Surprising oil drop experiments suggest that the quantum world may not be as strange as advertised.

neuroscience

A Fundamental Theory to Model the Mind

By Jennifer Ouellette
April 3, 2014
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Support is growing for a decades-old physics idea suggesting that localized episodes of disordered brain activity help keep the overall system in healthy balance.

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Mathematics

A Fluid New Path in Grand Math Challenge

By Erica Klarreich
February 24, 2014
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A daring speculation offers a potential way forward in one of the great unsolved problems of mathematics: the behavior of the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow.

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fluid dynamics

Could Knots Unravel Mysteries of Fluid Flow?

By Natalie Wolchover
December 9, 2013
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By investigating the central role played by knots in fluids and fields, physicists hope to unravel long-standing mysteries of turbulence.

universality

In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge

By Natalie Wolchover
February 5, 2013
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All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the Internet, appear to be governed by the same math as a random matrix.


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