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If you are a parent, teacher, or policymaker, the annual release of exam results brings a familiar sense of anxiety. For ...

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Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Researchers uncover the mathematical structure behind mesmerizing tiling patterns, linking their visual appeal to the ...

Cells live in a world of chaos, constantly buffeted by random molecular jolts that can derail even the most carefully tuned ...

A new study suggests that children with ADHD may exhibit a distinctive, measurable pattern of brain activity that could reflect differences in neural efficiency. The researchers focus on aperiodic EEG ...

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

The group that flagged an online user account now linked to the teenager who committed the shooting at Evergreen High School said the incident is part of a concerning pattern that needs more attention ...