Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Lottery officials are hoping that tonight's drawing could finally turn someone into a billionaire. On Monday at 11pm EST, the game will once again spin 69 white balls and 26 red balls from its ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

“Understanding U.S. patent litigation requires looking past raw filing numbers to the interplay of technology, strategic enforcement and the intrinsic strength of patents.” Patent litigation trends ...

Sequencing hundreds of Anopheles funestus mosquitoes provides new insights into the evolutionary patterns of this important human malaria-transmitting species. New research into the genetics of ...

Even though bats are the second most speciose group of mammals, neuroanatomical studies of their hippocampus are rare, particularly of small echolocating bats. Here, we provide a qualitative and ...

For the most part, voting patterns across demographic groups in the 2024 presidential election were not substantially different from the 2020 and 2016 elections. But Donald Trump’s gains among several ...

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For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers.