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The Hidden Chaos That Lurks in Ecosystems

[ad_1] By the early ’90s, ecologists had amassed sufficient time-series information units on species populations and sufficient computing energy to…

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Hypergraphs Reveal a Resolution to a 50-Yr-Previous Downside

[ad_1] The aim right here is to hint out triangles on high of those strains such that the triangles fulfill…

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Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth

[ad_1] “Each one of those kinds of pyrite is telling us something different about our planet, its origin, about life,…

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Meet the Ukrainian Number Theorist Who Won Math’s Highest Honor

[ad_1] In late February, just weeks after Maryna Viazovska learned she had won a Fields Medal—the highest honor for a…

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The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses

[ad_1] Since leptin is released by fat cells, scientists believe its presence in the blood is likely to signal to…

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Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light

[ad_1] On the eve of this new era of moon landings, a slew of fresh studies of PSRs have revealed…

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Astronomers Radically Reimagine the Making of the Planets

[ad_1] Start at the center, with the sun. Our middle-aged star may be more placid than most, but it is…

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A Grad Student’s Side Project Proves a Prime Number Conjecture

[ad_1] as the atoms of arithmetic, prime numbers have always occupied a special place on the number line. Now, Jared…

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Reshuffled Rivers Bolster the Amazon’s Hyper-Biodiversity

[ad_1] From the window of a passenger plane flying over the Amazon, the view is breathtaking. “It’s just miles across…

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Mathematicians Transcend a Geometric Theory of Motion

[ad_1] “[Floer] homology theory depends only on the topology of your manifold. [This] is Floer’s incredible insight,” said Agustin Moreno…

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