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Breaking Tetris

Breaking Tetris

How a 13-year-old reached the final level
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Cole Frederick
The Secret Reason You Got Food Poisoning (And Your Friend Didn’t)

The Secret Reason You Got Food Poisoning (And Your Friend Didn’t)

How your stomach acid, microbiome, and immune system fight off foodborne villains
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Dr. Hatem El-Nagar
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Laurel W

Simple Ways to Tell if Python Code Was Written by an LLM

Yes, We Can Tell

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What Makes Evolution Work: Competition or Cooperation?

What Makes Evolution Work: Competition or Cooperation?

Only those survive who have learned to work (and live) together
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Peter Ripota
The Color Pink is a Lie

The Color Pink is a Lie

Your Brain Made It Up — and You Fell for It
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Dominik John
From the Editors
A Monk and his Numbers

A Monk and his Numbers

Prime numbers have long been one of the most fascinating parts of mathematics, they get even crazier when we look a little deeper!
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Cole Frederick
What You Probably Never Knew About The √2

What You Probably Never Knew About The √2

A rational use for an irrational number
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Harlan Brothers
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Gödel’s Loophole

Gödel’s Loophole

A Logician’s Warning to All Who Believe in Democracy
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Laurel W
His Body is Gone, But He’s Still Composing

His Body is Gone, But He’s Still Composing

The brilliant experimentalist Alvin Lucier died in 2021. Now, his cerebral organoids are generating music.
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Harlan Brothers
The Death of Competitive Districts

The Death of Competitive Districts

American voters are losing their voice
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Cole Frederick
Why Fresh-Cut Grass Smells Like Summer

Why Fresh-Cut Grass Smells Like Summer

How molecules from grass can trigger memories and nostalgia
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John Knight, PhD
Brute-Force Photography — Image Noise & Hardware

Brute-Force Photography — Image Noise & Hardware

A series exploring a technical approach to an artistic niche.
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Anshul Sanghi
How Close is that Lightning Storm?

How Close is that Lightning Storm?

High school physics and some simple math can help keep you safe
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Harlan Brothers
The Dire Wolf Isn’t Back: What ‘De-Extinction’ Really Means (and What It Doesn’t)

The Dire Wolf Isn’t Back: What ‘De-Extinction’ Really Means (and What It Doesn’t)

Why CRISPR-ed wolves won’t save biodiversity — and what science should focus on instead.
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Paul Sandhu
Intelligent Design: Did God create the world?

Intelligent Design: Did God create the world?

Or is there a fundamental principle working without divine intervention?
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Peter Ripota
The Problem with P-values

The Problem with P-values

Statistics and the Replication Crisis
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Cole Frederick
Fractals in Code: Exploring the Mandelbrot Set with Python

Fractals in Code: Exploring the Mandelbrot Set with Python

Generating Complex Beauty Through Simple Code
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Mark Pedigo, PhD
Stable — or Just Stuck?

Stable — or Just Stuck?

On the Physical Notions of Energy, Stability, and the Paths in Between
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Paolo Molignini, PhD
Why Microwaves Always Mess Up Your Food

Why Microwaves Always Mess Up Your Food

… and the 3 hacks to fix it (without getting killed).
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Dominik John
The (Social) Physics of Polarization — Part 1

The (Social) Physics of Polarization — Part 1

Building Models to Understand Social Polarization
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Michael Ng
Benoit Mandelbrot, Educator

Benoit Mandelbrot, Educator

One of the greatest mathematicians of our age had a passion for education
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Harlan Brothers
The Power of a Simple Simulation

The Power of a Simple Simulation

The Monte Carlo Method
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Cole Frederick
Only the Mediocre Survive

Only the Mediocre Survive

Or, why does the mean populate the world?
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Peter Ripota
Elliptic curves I: Why?

Elliptic curves I: Why?

What motivates studying a mathematical concept
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Ben Fairbairn
From Monochrome Film to Digital Color Sensors

From Monochrome Film to Digital Color Sensors

A brief look at how modern camera sensors came to be
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Anshul Sanghi
A Color Fit for Kings and Emperors

A Color Fit for Kings and Emperors

The chemistry, history, and prestige behind Tyrian purple
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John Knight, PhD
Fathers and Pre-Eclampsia

Fathers and Pre-Eclampsia

When we should start sending fathers for pregnancy screens too.
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Josephine, PhD
How to Estimate π in the Woods

How to Estimate π in the Woods

Getting creative with math!
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Cole Frederick
The Theory of Evolution: What is its Predictive Value?

The Theory of Evolution: What is its Predictive Value?

Let’s look at one example: The Fanciful Finches
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Peter Ripota
Black Hole Radiation: The Cosmic Nursery We Never Expected

Black Hole Radiation: The Cosmic Nursery We Never Expected

From Cosmic Destroyers to Life’s Unexpected Allies: The Surprising Role of Supermassive Black Holes in Fostering Life
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Paul Sandhu
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