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  1. Math

    College Football, Rankings, and Wandering Monkeys

    The system for ranking college football teams to see who plays for the national championship has flaws.

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  2. Math

    More Progressive Primes

    The first sequence consisting of 23 prime numbers in arithmetic progression has been discovered.

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  3. Math

    Floating Bodies

    An extension of work by Archimedes on the stability of floating bodies leads to some insights into the behavior of icebergs and other structures.

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  4. Math

    Math Olympiad in Athens

    A team from the United States placed second in this year's International Mathematical Olympiad.

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  5. Math

    Math Olympiad in Athens

    A team from the United States placed second in this year's International Mathematical Olympiad.

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  6. Math

    Math Olympiad in Athens

    A team from the United States placed second in this year's International Mathematical Olympiad.

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  7. Math

    Math Olympiad in Athens

    A team from the United States placed second in this year's International Mathematical Olympiad.

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  8. Math

    Waring Experiments

    Expressing integers as the sums of squares or other powers has a long history.

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  9. Math

    Pythagoras Plays Ball

    The official dimensions of baseball's home plate aren't Pythagorean.

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  10. Math

    Dogs Catching Frisbees

    When navigating to intercept a thrown Frisbee, dogs appear to use the same geometric strategy that a baseball fielder employs to snag a fly ball hit into the outfield.

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  11. Math

    Dogs Catching Frisbees

    When navigating to intercept a thrown Frisbee, dogs appear to use the same geometric strategy that a baseball fielder employs to snag a fly ball hit into the outfield.

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  12. Math

    Earth Hole

    What path would an object falling down a hole through Earth follow?

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