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‘National Greatness’ versus real national greatness by Frank Wilczek
From the October 11, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Math
Largest known prime number found
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a cooperative computing project, helps find a prime that has nearly 13 million digits.
- Math
A knot of light
Researchers find a new theoretical way to tie light into complex knots and links.
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Corporate campaigns manufacture scientific doubt by David Michaels
From the September 27, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Math
Founder of the Secret Society of Mathematicians
Henri Cartan, one of the leaders of a revolution in mathematics, dies at 104.
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Protecting the Internet from the criminal element, by Eugene Spafford
From the September 13, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Math
Seeing in four dimensions
Mathematicians create videos that help in visualizing four-dimensional objects.
- Astronomy
Preserving digital data for the future of eScience
From the August 30, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Math
Do subatomic particles have free will?
Math Trek: If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove.
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In communicating science, Europe envies the U.S.
From the August 16, 2008 issue of Science News.
- Math
A Quasi-quasicrystal
Quasicrystals are bizarre, rare, mysterious materials blending mathematical order and irregularity. A new, unexpected material halfway between a regular crystal and a quasicrystal may help reveal their secrets.
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A building of bubbles
Math Trek: The National Aquatics Center in Beijing, newly built for the Olympics, is a glowing cube of bubbles. The mathematics behind it are built around Lord Kelvin's tetrakaidecahedra and the physics of foam.
