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Hosted by Steven Strogatz, The Joy of x podcast is back with new episodes that explore the inner worlds of top-tier scientists and mathematicians like Frank Wilczek, Bonnie Bassler and Amie Wilkinson.

An overlooked but powerful driver of cloud formation could accelerate the loss of polar sea ice.

A new proof demonstrates the power of arithmetic dynamics, an emerging discipline that combines insights from number theory and dynamical systems.

The learning algorithm that enables the runaway success of deep neural networks doesn’t work in biological brains, but researchers are finding alternatives that could.

One black hole is nice, but astrophysicists can do a lot more science with 50 of them.

Po-Shen Loh has harnessed his competitive impulses and iconoclastic tendencies to reinvigorate the U.S. Math Olympiad program.

A new study shows that extreme black holes could break the famous “no-hair” theorem, and in a way that we could detect.

Sometimes the act of solving a puzzle can itself reveal hidden insights.

A group of MIT undergraduates is searching for tetrahedra that tile space, the latest effort in a millennia-long inquiry. They’ve already made a new discovery.