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Lee Smolin explores the problem of understanding the universe from the perspective of being inside the universe, as well as the need for physicists to know… ...

Po-Shen Loh believes math education needs an overhaul. And he knows a thing or two about it—he’s resurrected the United States International Mathematical Olympiad team, leading it to four first-place… ...

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Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory while also working to make mathematics more inclusive.

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It was a big year. Fermilab discovered possible evidence of new physics with the muon G-2 experiment. Physicists created a time crystal, a new phase of matter that appears to violate one of nature’s ...

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