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The Importance of Community

Here is a 3-paragraph summary for mathopen.com: Camille McKayle stepped into the role of Executive Director and CEO of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) on September 1...

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How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?

# How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? Black holes are among the most mysterious objects in the universe, and for decades scientists believed photographing one was simply im...

Aperiodical

Double Maths First Thing: Issue 70

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Quanta Magazine

How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material

Here is a 3-paragraph summary of the article for mathopen.com: Spider silk is one of the most remarkable materials in nature, combining incredible strength with impressive flexibi...

Quanta Magazine

How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle

# How Voting Is Like a Klein Bottle Mathematicians have discovered a surprising connection between the way groups of people make collective decisions and a strange geometric objec...

Nautilus

How Multiple Births Can Accelerate A Mother’s Biological Age

## How Pregnancy Affects a Mother's Biological Age Pregnancy is one of the most physically demanding experiences a human body can go through. Growing a new human requires enormous...

Nautilus

Mother Bats’ Hearts Quicken When They Hear Baby’s Cries

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Quanta Magazine

Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering

Here is a 3-paragraph summary for mathopen.com: Scientists have long known that the malaria parasite, *Plasmodium falciparum*, invades red blood cells to survive and spread, but t...

Aperiodical

Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6F

Here is a 3-paragraph summary for mathopen.com: Double Maths First Thing is a newsletter written by Colin, a mathematician with a passion for making math fun and accessible. His g...

Quanta Magazine

AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?

Here is a 3-paragraph summary for mathopen.com: Artificial intelligence has accomplished something remarkable in the world of mathematics by proving the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis, ...

Quanta Magazine

See Inside Cells Like Never Before in These Vivid Microscopic Images

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Nautilus

Workers Who Fear AI May be More Prone to Slacking Off

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Quanta Magazine

He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art

Here is a 3-paragraph summary of the article for mathopen.com: Moritz Hardt, a researcher and author of a new book on AI benchmarks, is raising serious concerns about how we measu...

Quanta Magazine

How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?

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Nautilus

ISS Astronaut Spots Moon-like Mountains From Space

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Aperiodical

Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6E

Here is a 3-paragraph summary for mathopen.com: In Issue 6E of *Double Maths First Thing*, mathematician Colin shares his enthusiasm for making mathematics accessible and enjoyabl...

Quanta Magazine

Triplet of ‘Ghostly’ Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is — and Isn’t

Here is a 3-paragraph summary of the article for mathopen.com: Astronomers have discovered a fascinating triplet of "ghostly" galaxies that appear to contain little to no dark mat...

Quanta Magazine

Is ‘Attention’ the Essence of Intelligence?

# The Math Behind AI's Most Powerful Idea At the heart of modern artificial intelligence lies a deceptively simple mathematical mechanism called **attention**. First introduced in...

Nautilus

The Placenta Is More Powerful—and More Mysterious—Than You Think

Here is a 3-paragraph summary of the article for mathopen.com: **The Placenta: More Than Just a Pancake** The word "placenta" comes from the Latin word for cake, which itself tra...

Quanta Magazine

How Does Life Unfold? A Landscape Metaphor Comes Into Its Own.

# The Waddington Landscape: A Mathematical Vision of Life In the 1950s, biologist C.H. Waddington proposed a striking visual metaphor to explain how embryonic stem cells develop i...

Aperiodical

Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6D

Here is a 3-paragraph summary for mathopen.com: In Issue 6D of *Double Maths First Thing*, author Colin, a mathematician dedicated to sharing the joy of mathematics, opens up abou...

Quanta Magazine

As AI Closed In on ‘Unique Games’ Proof, Researchers Raced to Beat the Machines

# The Race to Solve the Unique Games Conjecture The Unique Games Conjecture is one of the most important unsolved problems in theoretical computer science. Proposed in 2002, it ma...

Nautilus

Is Criminal Forensics Bullshit?

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Aperiodical

Carnival of Maths 255

Here is a 3-paragraph summary of the article for mathopen.com: The Carnival of Mathematics is a long-running blog roundup that collects some of the best math writing from across t...

Plus Magazine

The International Congress of Mathematicians 2026

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Quanta Magazine

Is AI the End of Math As We Know It?

# Is AI the End of Math As We Know It? Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the world of mathematics, and many mathematicians are struggling to make sense of what that ...

Quanta Magazine

Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence

# Sea Monkeys Reveal a Hidden Secret of Turbulence For decades, scientists believed that turbulence followed a strict one-way rule: energy always flows from large, churning moveme...

MAA

Launching the O’Connor Colloquium on Mathematics and Music

# The O'Connor Colloquium on Mathematics and Music Mathematics and music have always shared a deep and fascinating connection, and this relationship has been a highlight of MAA Ma...

Aperiodical

The last four digits of 16¹⁶

Here is a 3-paragraph summary for mathopen.com: **The Last Four Digits of 16¹⁶** A fun mathematical curiosity recently made the rounds on the math-fun mailing list: the number 16...

Quanta Magazine

What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like?

# What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like? Mathematician Maggie Miller tackles one of the most mind-bending challenges in mathematics: understanding and visualizing four...

Aperiodical

Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6C

Here is a 3-paragraph summary of the article for mathopen.com: **Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6C** In this installment of his popular newsletter, Colin, a mathematician with a...

Aperiodical

Aperiodical News Roundup – August/September 2026

Here is a 3-paragraph summary of the article for mathopen.com: The math world has something exciting to celebrate: a new Lerch prime has been discovered. Lerch primes are a specia...

Quanta Magazine

Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings

# Waves Across the Brain: A Mathematical Window Into Neural Activity Researchers have discovered surprisingly intricate wave patterns traveling across the surface of the human bra...

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Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture

# Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture For over half a century, a mathematical problem believed to have been inspired by the art of juggling sat uns...

Quanta Magazine

Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?

# Gravity's Holographic Secret One of the most mind-bending ideas in modern theoretical physics is that gravity appears to be holographic. This means that everything happening ins...

Aperiodical

Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6B

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Quanta Magazine

Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike

# Biology's Surprising Mathematical Connection to Quantum Theory For decades, scientists have searched for meaningful links between quantum mechanics and biology, hoping to find t...

Nautilus

The Mysterious Migrant Potters of Ancient Tampa Bay

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Quanta Magazine

How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution

# Jumping Genes: The Unexpected Architects of Human DNA Nearly half of the human genome is made up of transposons, often called "jumping genes." These are small snippets of DNA th...

Quanta Magazine

Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich

# Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich For decades, mathematicians have been working toward a deeper understanding of complex networks through the study of graphs, whi...

Nautilus

There’s a Neurological Basis for “Pregnancy Brain”

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Quanta Magazine

Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin?

# Where Does the Quantum World End and Ours Begin? One of the most fascinating puzzles in physics is understanding why the strange rules of quantum mechanics, which govern subatom...

Aperiodical

Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6A

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Quanta Magazine

Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders.

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Quanta Magazine

Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’

# Little Red Dots: A Cosmic Mystery The James Webb Space Telescope has been capturing something unexpected across the early universe: tiny, faint red specks that astronomers have ...

Nautilus

Rope, Twine and Thread: Invisible Technologies of the Stone Age

# The Hidden Power of Ancient String Long before metal tools or written language, early humans mastered one of the most transformative technologies in history: fiber. Rope, twine,...

Quanta Magazine

Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia?

# The Flipping Shells Mystery Foraminifera are tiny, ancient marine organisms that build spiral shells, and scientists have noticed something remarkable about their fossils: the d...

Quanta Magazine

The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof

## A Classic Problem Gets Fresh Eyes The Four-Color Theorem is one of mathematics' most famous results, stating that any map can be colored using just four colors so that no two n...

Aperiodical

Double Maths First Thing: Issue 69

Here is a 3-paragraph summary of the article for mathopen.com: Double Maths First Thing is a newsletter written by Colin, a mathematician dedicated to making math fun, joyful, and...

Quanta Magazine

What Is Math’s Mysterious Langlands Program Really About?

# The Langlands Program: Math's Grand Unified Theory At the heart of modern mathematics lies a sweeping set of conjectures known as the Langlands Program, first proposed by mathem...

Aperiodical

Carnival of Maths 254

Here is a 3-paragraph summary of the article for mathopen.com: The Carnival of Mathematics is a beloved monthly tradition in the math blogging community, bringing together the bes...

Quanta Magazine

AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems

# AI Tackles One of Math's Greatest Unsolved Problems For decades, mathematicians have struggled with one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics: the Navier-Stokes eq...

Aperiodical

\(-e^i\) to Watch: aboutlogic

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Quanta Magazine

In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures

# When Physics Meets AI: What Truly Lasts? Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, is thinking carefully about what artificial intelligence means for the...

Quanta Magazine

Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI?

# Live from ICM 2026: What Is Math For in the Age of AI? At the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, some of the world's leading mathematical minds gathe...

Aperiodical

Double Maths First Thing: Issue 68

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Quanta Magazine

Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble

Here is a 3-paragraph summary of the article for mathopen.com: Genome duplication is one of the most dramatic events that can occur in an organism's evolutionary history. When an ...

Quanta Magazine

‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions

Here is a 3-paragraph summary of the article for mathopen.com: For decades, mathematicians have wondered whether certain networks undergo sharp, dramatic changes in behavior when ...

Quanta Magazine

Does Computer Science Need Computers?

# Does Computer Science Need Computers? At its core, theoretical computer science is a branch of mathematics. Researchers in this field spend their days proving theorems, analyzin...

MAA

MAA Announces Official Testing Centers for the 2027 American Invitational Mathematics Examination

Here is a 3-paragraph summary for mathopen.com: The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) has announced a major change to how the 2027 American Invitational Mathematics Examin...