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The computer scientist Cynthia Dwork takes abstract concepts like privacy and fairness and adapts them into machine code for the algorithmic age.

Recent discoveries have led some researchers to argue that the modern evolutionary synthesis needs to be amended.

How do physicists reconstruct what really happened in a particle collision? Through calculations that are so challenging that, in some cases, they simply can’t be done. Yet.

What formula describes the farthest you can stack flat blocks over the edge of a table to form a seemingly gravity-defying half-bridge to nowhere?

An unexpected connection has emerged between the results of physics experiments and an important, seemingly unrelated set of numbers in pure mathematics.

The same problem that caused the 2007 financial crisis also tripped up the polling data ahead of this year’s presidential election.

So-called “analogue experiments” are becoming increasingly common in physics, but do they teach or mislead?

The results of this year’s presidential election made a mockery of analytical election forecast modelers.

Can a fluid analogue of a black hole point physicists toward the theory of quantum gravity, or is it a red herring?