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  1. Math

    Fractal Roots and Artful Math

    The term “mathematical art” usually conjures up images of M.C. Escher’s endless staircases, Möbius-strip ants, and mind-boggling tilings. Or it might remind one of the intimate intertwining of mathematics and art during the Renaissance with the development of perspective painting and eye-teasing stagecraft. A view of the recent MathArt/ArtMath show at the Selby Gallery in […]

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  2. Humans

    Solar series wins award for Science News

    The Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society has given its 2002 popular writing award to Ron Cowen and Sid Perkins for a two-part series on cyclic variations in the sun's activity.

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  3. Agriculture

    Moos, microbes, and methane

    A feed additive could reduce methane emissions from cows.