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The Almost-Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem
19th-century mathematicians thought the “roots of unity” were the key to solving Fermat’s Last Theorem. Then they discovered a fatal flaw.
In the Flow on Half Dome
“I felt elated, alive. ‘Look where we are!’ I shouted. ‘This is crazy!’”
How Much Should Expectation Drive Science?
Answers to the biggest mysteries may lie well outside traditional paradigms.
Evil Triumphs in These Multiverses, and God Is Powerless
How scientific cosmology puts a new twist on the problem of evil.
Dark Matter Could Be a Superfluid Sometimes
Dark matter might be fluid in galaxies but something else on vaster, cosmological scales.
