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Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations, April 2019

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I am an independent science writer who works from an office shed in my backyard in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the last decade, I’ve written about the mathematics of pizza slicing for New Scientist, tumor banking for CR (now Cancer Today), and extrasolar planets for Discover. I specialize in stories about astronomy, physics, cancer research and mathematics; I’m also a regular contributor to Science News for Students, an educational website, and a researcher for Cancer Today magazine.

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Back off the bacon and cold cuts?

Back off the bacon and cold cuts?

In October 2015, bacon lovers around the world panicked. A major international health group issued a report s…

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Big Data: Sharing Information to Improve Care

Big Data: Sharing Information to Improve Care

Big data, using high-powered computers to gather and analyze massive amounts of patient information, promises…

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Science Fraudster Pays the Price

Science Fraudster Pays the Price

In July, an Iowa District Court sentenced biomedical researcher Dong-Pyou Han, formerly of Iowa State Univers…

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Hunt is on for world's deepest caves more than 2km underground

Hunt is on for world's deepest caves more than 2km underground

HOW low can you go? Dedicated deep cavers plumb the depths for an answer, and a newly announced expedition ma…

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Unchartered Underground

Unchartered Underground

That is the new but little-known field of “speleophysics” – or “the physics of caves” – which we tackle in th…

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Researchers Race to Rescue the Enormous Theorem before Its Giant Proof Vanishes

Researchers Race to Rescue the Enormous Theorem before Its Giant Proof Vanishes

A seemingly endless variety of food was sprawled over several tables at the home of Judith L. Baxter and her …

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Saving the tiniest turtle in the United States Original

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The southern bog turtle, Glyptemys muhlenbergii, is the smallest turtle in North America and, arguably, the most adorable. After it hatches, an individual measures about as big as a quarter; by adulthood, it maxes out at the length of a computer mouse. It’s identifiable by bright and curving orange, red, or yellow patterns at the base of the neck, which you can only see when it extends its very small head out of the shell.
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Video games help push the boundaries of AI

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Video games help push the boundaries of AI | PNAS
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Tabletop lightning helps make an alcohol used for fuels and more

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