Erica Klarreich
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All Stories by Erica Klarreich
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Math
Primal Progress: Pattern hunters spy order among prime numbers
The population of prime numbers includes an infinite collection of arithmetic progressions.
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Health & Medicine
Quantum sentinels
Quantum physics may soon help physicians track whether a cancer has spread.
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Math
Toss Out the Toss-Up: Bias in heads-or-tails
Coin tossing is inherently biased, with the coin more likely to land on the same face it started on.
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Math
Computation’s New Leaf
Plants in which large numbers of simple units interact with one another appear to compute how to coordinate the actions of their cells effectively.
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Math
Bookish Math
Statistical tests and computation can help solve literary mysteries surrounding the authorship of well-known works.
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Math
Bookish Math
Statistical tests and computation can help solve literary mysteries surrounding the authorship of well-known works.
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Math
The Shape of Space
The debate over the shape of space has taken some new twists with the analysis of satellite snapshots of the universe's temperature waves.
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Math
Best Guess
Economists are exploring the use of betting markets as tools for predicting the consequences of policy decisions by a government, corporation, or other institution.
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Faulty Memory: Long-term immunity isn’t always beneficial
Quickly losing immune-system defenses against some viruses may protect humans from far nastier bugs, a mathematical model suggests.
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Math
Infinite Wisdom
A mathematician has proposed a new approach to resolve a long-standing question about infinite sets of numbers.