Science and reality
A two-year-old cryptographic breakthrough has proven difficult to put into practice. But new advances show how near-perfect computer security might be surprisingly close at hand.
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This adaptation from the biography Genius at Play shows how serious advances such as the surreal numbers can spring out of fun and games.
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The physicist James Bullock explains how a complicated “dark sector” of interacting particles may illuminate some puzzling observations of the centers of galaxies.
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For more than 50 years, the mathematician Neil Sloane has curated the authoritative collection of interesting and important integer sequences.
The post Meet the Guy Who Sorts All the World’s Numbers in His Attic appeared first on WIRED.
Is geology predictable, or is the mineral composition of Earth due to chance events?
The post How Life and Luck Changed Earth’s Minerals appeared first on WIRED.
Computers can prove mathematical theorems. But can they make deep conceptual insights into the way the world works?
The post How Computers Are Changing the Way We Explain the World appeared first on WIRED.
Researchers are uncovering the hidden laws that reveal how the Internet grows, how viruses spread, and how financial bubbles burst.
The post New Laws Explain Why Fast-Growing Networks Break appeared first on WIRED.
One of the greatest mysteries in physics could be solved by a mattress-like axion field that permeates space and time.
The post A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass appeared first on WIRED.