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Illuminating math and science. Supported by @SimonsFdn. 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting.

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Every four years, the math world’s preeminent awards are given to the finest minds of a generation. The young Fields and Abacus Medal winners — all under 40 on the first day of the year — have reshaped mathematics and theoretical computer science. Here are the #ICM2026 winners:
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The inner world of a cow has global impact — and not a good one. Scientists are looking into livestock’s specialized stomachs to curb their burps.
A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmosphere | Quanta Magazine
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The synthetic biologist Kate Adamala coaxed a cellular soup of nonliving biomolecules enclosed in a membrane to act somewhat like a living thing. The synthetic cell even grew and divided into daughter cells. quantamagazine.org/for-the-first-…
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In 2013, researchers carefully transported delicate magnetic machinery from New York to Illinois by sea, river, and road, in order to determine how muon particles wobble. Their findings seemed to solve the muon mystery, only to create a new mystery involving electrons.
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In 2023, then-undergraduate Andrew Krapivin read through a paper on computing memory “just for fun.” As a result, he ended up dramatically re-vamping a classic 70-year-old computing tool known as the hash table. quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-…
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