This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

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Correspondence to Johann Windt, Experimental Medicine Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; johannwindt{at}gmail.com Traditional calculations of the acute:chronic ...

A tricky math equation turned out to be an intricate ploy for nudes. Joe McGill, a 24-year-old from Laurel, Maryland, had something a little different on his header photo on Twitter. While most people ...