March 19, 2026
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Gerd Faltings, mathematician who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize at age 71
The Mordell conjecture—now known as Faltings’s theorem—concerns the number of special points on a…
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The math of March Madness brackets
Let’s say you somehow manage to sleep through all of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s March Madness and wake up in a stupor after all 64 college basketball teams in the main tournament have competed head-to-head and a champion…
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Fossil X-ray reveals new species of baby dino named for iconic Korean cartoon
Cute, green, and sporting two sprigs of hair on his head, a mischievous baby dinosaur named Dooly is one of the most beloved cartoon characters in South Korea. So, when researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the Korean Dinosaur…
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How foreign investor lawsuits stymie environmental protection
New data by the Transnational Institute reveal how an increase in lawsuits by foreign investors is undermining government efforts to protect natural resources and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. Countries in the region are facing…
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FieldCamp Introduces AI Dispatcher for Field Service: Skills Matching, Route Optimization, and Emergency Reshuffling Built for the Trades
A new AI-powered dispatching tool helps plumbing, HVAC, electrical, cleaning, and all the field service companies do more with fewer workers, matching technicians to jobs by skill, optimizing routes, and eliminating the 5:30 AM whiteboard…
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Cutting sweet foods doesn’t reduce cravings or improve health
A new clinical trial found that adjusting how sweet a person’s diet is does not affect how much they enjoy sweet foods. Whether people ate more or less sweet-tasting items, their preference for sweetness stayed the same.
The study also found no…
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Tumor debulking fails to improve survival in colorectal cancer
A major randomized trial challenges the assumed benefit of tumor debulking in advanced colorectal cancer, showing no survival gain despite increased risks and raising questions about its role in routine care.
Study: Tumor Debulking…
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Can quantum computers now solve health care problems? We’ll soon find out.
Unfortunately, those patterns are hidden inside data sets so large that they overwhelm classical solvers. Infleqtion uses the quantum computer to find correlations in the data that can reduce the size of the computation. “Then we hand the…
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World Frog Day: New species described amid threats to amphibian survival
March 20 is World Frog Day. Frogs and toads have inhabited Earth for hundreds of millions of years, but 40% of amphibians species are now at risk of extinction, according to the latest conservation assessments. Every year, roughly 150 new…
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A Nearly Complete Ancestor of the Great White Shark Has Been Discovered
For a shark that vanishes almost as quickly as it appears, the great white has left behind a surprisingly messy family history. Paleontologists have spent decades arguing over which extinct line produced the modern species, often with little…
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