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The world may seem orderly, but randomness and chaos shape everything in the universe, from enormous galaxies all the way down to subatomic particles. Take a chilly window sheeting over with ice: even ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is escalating pressure on the defense industry to stop opposing military right-to-repair legislation, as House and Senate ...

(via Quanta) A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture, a cornerstone of modern analysis connecting geometry, ...

Former Nestlé CEO Laurent Freixe was fired after a senior executive said to be his mistress allegedly caught him in a Zurich hotel with a subordinate — and then filed a complaint through the company’s ...

One of the biggest stories in science is quietly playing out in the world of abstract mathematics. Over the course of last year, researchers fulfilled a decades-old dream when they unveiled a proof of ...

The Ferrers invariant of a bipartite graph is defined in terms of its degree sequence and bipartition. The Ferrers bound conjecture is the conjecture, due to Ehrenborg, that the number of spanning ...

Before any TV soap operas aired for the day on July 4, a daytime drama of a different sort unfolded on social media. Last Friday morning, the village of Lake Zurich posted notice on Facebook that the ...

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First proposed in 2012, the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT) is a devilishly difficult math theory that experts describe as an “alien language.” Although only a few mathematicians around the ...