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  1. Math

    Mathematical Art on Display

    The term “mathematical art” usually conjures up just one name–that of Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972). Many people are familiar with Escher’s endless staircases, hyperbolic tilings, Möbius ants, intricate tessellations, and other creations. They may also be aware of the intertwining of mathematics and art during the Renaissance, with the development of perspective […]

    By Ivars Peterson
  2. Animals

    Mole-rats: Kissing but not quite cousins

    Damaraland mole-rats live underground in rodent versions of bee hives, but a genetic analysis of these colonies finds that kinship isn't very beelike.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Physics

    Peer Pressure in Numbers: Physicists model the power of social sway

    A mathematical model of peer-influenced behavior may help explain some unexpected patterns that have been observed in financial data and bird populations.

    By Kristin Cobb

  4. Aphids with Attitude

    A few aphid species that live socially in groups raise their own armies of teenage female clones.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Humans

    Motor City hosts top science fair winners

    The 2000 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winners were announced in Detroit.

    By John Travis
  6. Math

    Möbius and his Band

    Making a Möbius strip. A Möbius band (or strip) is an intriguing surface with only one side and one edge. You can make one by joining the two ends of a long strip of paper after giving one end a 180-degree twist. An ant can crawl from any point on such a surface to any […]

    By Ivars Peterson
  7. Humans

    Message in DNA tops Science Talent Search

    A project on encrypting words within a strand of DNA won the top prize at the Intel Science Talent Search.

    By John Travis
  8. Plants

    Why Turn Red?

    Why leaves turn red is a stranger question than why they turn yellow.

    By Susan Milius

  9. To save gardens, ants rush to whack weeds

    Ants can grow gardens, too, and the first detailed study of their weeding techniques shows that whether a gardener has two legs or six, the chore looks much the same.

    By Susan Milius

  10. New ant species plunders other ants’ farms

    A newly discovered Megalomyrmex ant specializes in raiding the nest gardens of fungus-cultivating ant species.

    By Susan Milius

  11. Slave-making ants get rough in New York

    The whole ant slave-making business turns more violent in New York than in West Virginia, even though it features the same species.

    By Susan Milius

  12. Meeting Danielle the Tarantula

    Insect zoos have no lions, tigers, or bears but can give plenty of thrills, courtesy of tarantulas, giant beetles, and exotic grasshoppers.

    By Susan Milius