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Cicadas Primed for Defense
The periodical cicada is one of the world’s longest-living insects, but nobody knows why it times its death with bizarre precision: It either lives for 13 years or 17 years, on the dot. Now, Japanese...
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Hidden Fractals Suggest Answer to Ancient Math Problem
Researchers have found a fractal pattern underlying everyday math. In the process, they’ve discovered a way to calculate partition numbers, a challenge that’s stymied mathematicians for centuries....
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Unknown Mathematician Proves Elusive Property of Prime Numbers
An unknown mathematician, Yitang Zhang, has revolutionized his field and helped move forward a 2,000-year-old conjecture about prime numbers. His counterintuitive findings show that special pairs of...
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Sudden Progress on Prime Number Problem Has Mathematicians Buzzing
Working on the centuries-old twin primes conjecture, two solitary researchers and a massive collaboration have made enormous advances over the last six months.
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