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Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

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Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

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How many kinds of elementary particles should I say there are? In experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, physicists smash ...

Evolutionary biologists are uncovering genomic mechanisms that allow populations to adapt quickly to different, hyperlocal habitats without splitting into new species. When she was a graduate student ...

Neutrinos have about as little influence as a particle can have. They have essentially no heft, no electric charge, and no “color” charge. As a result, the neutrino has no connection with most of ...