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Life was long thought to obey its own set of rules. But as simple systems show signs of lifelike behavior, scientists are arguing about whether this apparent complexity is all a consequence of thermodynamics. Quanta Magazine is committed to accurate...

Math conferences don’t usually feature standing ovations, but Francis Su received one last month in Atlanta. Su, a mathematician at Harvey Mudd College in California and the outgoing president of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), delivered...

Excerpts from an article on Quanta Magazine, rearranged for clarity and space: Math conferences don't usually feature standing ovations, but Francis Su received one last month in Atlanta. In his talk he framed mathematics as a pursuit uniquely suited...

From Newser: Sweet Killer: 5 Most Incredible Discoveries of the Week Including a look at your big-mouthed ancestor From the Mind Circle: He Saved 669 Children During The Holocaust… And He Doesn’t Know They’re Sitting Next To Him.[Ed: a few years old...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). Despite Michael Atiyah’s many accolades—he is a winner of both the Fields and the Abel prizes for mathematics; a past president of the Royal Society of London, the oldest scientific society in the world...