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How Circadian Clocks Differ From Sleep

The circadian clock is in nearly every cell, and researchers have untangled many of its secrets. But sleep has been harder to pin down.

February 21, 2017

Meet the South Pole’s Dark Matter Detective

Reina Maruyama wasn’t expecting her particle detector to work buried deep in ice. She was wrong.

February 19, 2017

Ingenious: Carl Erik Fisher

The meditative psychiatrist.

February 17, 2017

This Man Is About to Blow Up Mathematics

Harvey Friedman is about to bring incompleteness and infinity out of quarantine.

February 17, 2017

The Physicist Who Denies that Dark Matter Exists

Maybe Newtonian physics doesn't need dark matter to work, but Mordehai Milgrom instead.

February 15, 2017

The Hidden Twist to Making a Möbius Strip

The simple Möbius strip illustrates a deep mathematical challenge that has long tormented the field of symplectic geometry.

February 10, 2017