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Jordana Cepelewicz

‘Gem’ of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers

A New Proof Moves the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem

Mathematicians Find Hidden Structure in a Common Type of Space

‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks a Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture

A Teenager Solved a Stubborn Prime Number ‘Look-Alike’ Riddle

A New Computer Proof ‘Blows Up’ Centuries-Old Fluid Equations

A Grad Student’s Side Project Proves a Prime Number Conjecture

Math’s ‘Oldest Problem Ever’ Gets a New Answer

Mathematicians Outwit a Hidden Number ‘Conspiracy’

To Learn More Quickly, Brain Cells Break Their DNA

Animals Can Count. How Far Does Their Number Sense Go?

DNA Has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth

The Secret Workings of Smell Receptors, Revealed At Last

The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations

How to Be Humane to a Lab-Grown Brain

Humans and Neanderthals Kept Breeding—and Breeding—for Ages

The Mysterious Math of How Cells Determine Their Own Fate

How the Brain Keeps Its Memories in the Right Order

Clues to Our Unknown Ancestors Are Hiding in Our Genome

AI Has a Strange New Muse: Our Sense of Smell