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Herd immunity differs from place to place, and many factors influence how it’s calculated.

Cosmic rays may have given right-handed genetic helixes an evolutionary edge at the beginning of life’s history.

While locked down due to COVID-19, Joshua Greene and Andrew Lobb figured out how to prove a version of the “rectangular peg problem.”

One hundred years after it was proposed, the Ising model is used to understand everything from magnets to brains.

Many theories have been offered for why the official COVID-19 toll on the Indian subcontinent has been surprisingly low. The best explanation may be the shortage of good, timely data.

The astrophysicist and social media phenom Katie Mack is ready to tell you about the fate of the universe.

Solve a puzzle about mixed dog breeds, sexual reproduction and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data. One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics.

Mathematicians typically appreciate either generic or exceptional beauty in their work, but one type is more useful in describing the universe.