Animation of the same plastic spheres disappearing one at a time. A holy grail in pure mathematics is sphere packing in higher dimensions. Almost nothing has been rigorously proven about it, except in dimensions 1, 2 and 3. That’s why it was such a breakthrough when, in 2016, a young Ukrainian mathematician named Maryna Viazovska … Read more
The federal government annually spends billions funding research at Harvard, part of a decades-old system that is little understood by the public but essential to American science. This spring, nearly every dollar of that payment was cut off by the Trump administration, endangering much of the university’s research. Grants terminated at Harvard This picture represents … Read more
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