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“One thing that this article is showing is that we are very seasonal creatures,” says Georgetown University School of ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

Mathematics communicator and drag queen Kyne will help you discover the beauty and power of math in this miniseries.

Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

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Math’s “best-choice problem” could help humans become better decision-makers, at everything from choosing the best job ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that ...

Brooke Scelza is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles’s department of anthropology. She is co-director of the Kunene Rural Health and Demography Project, where she studies ...

Some researchers dream of solving all mysteries with a common method—but a mathematical paradox may keep such solutions out ...

In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser.” But this use distorts its history and ...

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