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Newfound Mathematical ‘Einstein’ Shape Creates a Never-Repeating Pattern

Share this on WhatsApp Creatively tiling a bathroom floor isn’t just a stressful task for DIY home renovators. It is also one of the hardest problems in mathematics. For centuries, experts have been studying the special properties of tile shapes that can cover floors, kitchen backsplashes or infinitely large planes without leaving any gaps. Specifically, […]

The New Science of Lockdowns

Share this on WhatsApp The rapid spread of COVID-19 in early 2020 caught many governments unaware and forced them to move rapidly into a crude form of lockdown to curb the spread of the virus, with little time to consider the merits of variants on these basic lockdown strategies. The major concern now, as we […]

Will the Nature-Nurture Debate Ever End?

Share this on WhatsApp Back in the pre-pandemic era, I was really looking forward to April 8. On that date, Carl Zimmer was going to give a talk at my school, Stevens Institute of Technology, about his latest book, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh. For decades, Zimmer has reported on biology in The New York Times and other […]