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The Eclipse That Ended a War and Shook the Gods Forever

Abel Prize Awarded for Studies of Universe’s Randomness

The Crochet Coral Reef Keeps Spawning, Hyperbolically

What Can You Do With an Einstein?

To Wear the Sudoku Crown, One Must Solve Any Number of Puzzles

The Math of Putting Tiles Together

How Long Is the Drive to the Edge of the Universe?

June Huh’s monochrome chess puzzle paved the way for chromatic geometry.

Unraveling How an Extinct Mollusk Got Its Strange Shell

How Math Solved the Case of the Volcanic Bombs That Didn’t Explode

These Typefaces Are Truly Puzzling

Who’s Afraid of Big Numbers?

2 Win Abel Prize for Work That Bridged Math and Computer Science

The Latest Wrinkle in Crumple Theory

Triangulating Math, Mozart and ‘Moby-Dick’

Can This New Map Fix Our Distorted Views of the World?

Isadore Singer, Who Bridged a Gulf From Math to Physics, Dies at 96

The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life

Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything?

A Hopeful Forecast: More Accurate Long-Term Weather Predictions