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[:eu]A French mathematician has completed the classification of all convex pentagons, and therefore all convex polygons, that tile the plane.[:]

[:eu]Supernova hunters were able to train their telescopes on a recent eruption just hours after it exploded. What they found only adds to the growing list of questions surrounding these […]

[:eu]If gut bacteria can sway their hosts to be selfless, it could answer a riddle that goes back to Darwin.[:]

[:eu]Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings, far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s […]

[:eu]The British physicist and mathematician Sir Roger Penrose conjectured in 1969 that visible or “naked” singularities are actually forbidden from forming in nature, in a kind of cosmic censorship. But […]

[:eu]A different kind of dark matter could help to resolve an old celestial conundrum.[:]

[:eu]The computational immunologist Purvesh Khatri embraces messy data as a way to capture the messiness of disease. As a result, he’s making elusive genomic discoveries.[:]

[:eu]New math shows how, contrary to conventional scientific wisdom, conscious beings and other macroscopic entities might have greater influence over the future than does the sum of their microscopic components.[:]

[:eu]Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head. 10 [:]