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How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick?

By Tara C. Smith
September 27, 2023
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Exposure to a virus isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition. The concept of “infectious dose” suggests ways to keep ourselves safer from harm.

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The Hidden Brain Connections Between Our Hands and Tongues

By R. Douglas Fields
August 28, 2023
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Sticking out your tongue while doing delicate work with your hands reveals a history of evolutionary relationships.

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How Genetic Surprises Complicate the Old Doctrine of DNA

By C. Brandon Ogbunu
July 31, 2023
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For over a century, biologists have had to contend with a complicated picture of genetics, which they’ve only recently begun to understand.

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Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally

By Patrick Honner
July 21, 2023
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Knowing a little about the local connections on flight maps and other networks can reveal a lot about a system’s global structure.

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How Math Achieved Transcendence

By David S. Richeson
June 27, 2023
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Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to understand them.

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Math Patterns That Go On Forever but Never Repeat

By Patrick Honner
May 23, 2023
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Simple math can help explain the complexities of the newly discovered aperiodic monotile.

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Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed

By R. Douglas Fields
April 19, 2023
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In all bilaterally symmetrical animals, from humans down to simple worms, nerves cross from one side of the body to the opposite side of the brain. Geometry may explain why.

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The Colorful Problem That Has Long Frustrated Mathematicians

By David S. Richeson
March 29, 2023
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The four-color problem is simple to explain, but its complex proof continues to be both celebrated and despised.

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The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy

By Patrick Honner
March 24, 2023
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Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics.


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