Physics
Largest prime number ever found has over 23 million digits
Two multiplied by itself nearly eighty million times minus one is the biggest prime number ever discovered by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
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Physics
Space-time and gravity might be born from the quantum world
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Physics
Mathematician set to publish ABC proof almost no one understands
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Humans
Effortless thinking: Why life is more than a zero-sum game
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Environment
Bumblebees solve the travelling salesman problem on the fly
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Humans
The Soviet genius who tried to beat capitalism at its own game
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Humans
Wrong division: How maths can save democracy from gerrymandering
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Humans
The Seduction of Curves revives old ideas about maths and beauty
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Physics
How to beat the bookies by turning their odds against them
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Health
Illuminating India: The genius of making a little go a long way
A new exhibition at London’s Science Museum leaves visitors thinking that technology may be making the world a better place after all
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Humans
Most science papers turn out to be wrong. It’s time to fix that
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Physics
Riddle of the primes: why do they come in pairs?
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Humans
The brain’s 7D sandcastles could be the key to consciousness
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Technology
Beating the odds: the mathematics of gambling
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