Hong Wang Twirls in Fractal Dimensions of Three
The young mathematician won a prestigious Fields Medal for her work on the so-called Kakeya conjecture.
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How to Eat a 2,000-Pound Fish? These Orcas Choose to Pulverize It.
Marine biologists in Mexico captured video of a strange maneuver that killer whales used to shred their meal.
What Were the Lotus-Eaters Eating?
In Homer’s epic, Odysseus’s men eat something so powerful that they forget about home. Which plants could have produced such a soporific…
Deep in This Lake, a Contagious Cancer Is Spreading
Transmissible tumors have been reported in a handful of animal species, but never before among fish. Is it possible in humans?
Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans
Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.
Susumu Tonegawa Dies at 86; Nobel Laureate Showed How Antibodies Fight Infection
The first Japanese scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, he went on to discover how memories are stored, advancing und…
The Future of Nutrition Research May Run Through the Sewer
During the Covid-19 pandemic, wastewater testing became a virus warning system. Now, scientists are using the approach to understand how com…
The Best Genetic Risk Tools Don’t Work Equally for Everyone
Genetic prediction models are poised to revolutionize medicine. But because they have been trained on European DNA, they threaten to widen h…
Rudolph Marcus, Who Illuminated Electrochemical Processes, Dies at 102
He received a 1992 Nobel Prize for developing a theory that explained fundamental processes behind photosynthesis, respiration, oxidation an…
A Tribute to the Mathematically Marvelous Soccer Ball
As the World Cup final approaches, take a moment to appreciate the beautiful symmetries of humanity’s favorite truncated icosahedron.
Rare Pair of Improbably Light ‘Super-Puff’ Planets Is Discovered
They’re less dense than cotton candy, and they will help astrophysicists better understand the most unusual ways giant planets can form.
Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet
It’s the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar…