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How numbers can tip the scales of justice.

Chance encounters in the life of Andrei Kolmogorov.

How “exceptional responders” are revolutionizing treatment for the deadly disease.

In the search for subatomic particles, it helps to know what you’re looking for.

Fat Johnny Little and Salty Salt Sue make a break for the desert.

Battling a rare form of muscular dystrophy, a family finds an activist leader, and hope.

Can the Large Hadron Collider spawn black holes at full power? CERN investigates.

Past disasters help us prepare—and make us pay attention.

How the unlikely and unexplainable, strange and terrifying, spawned the age of science.

Five unlikely breakthroughs in medical science today.

Blind to the mathematical odds, we fall to the marketing gods.

How the 2009 swine flu raced around the world.