For years, headlines about the “Mayan calendar” focused on end-of-the-world myths. Behind those stories sat a real scientific puzzle that experts could not quite solve. Now researchers say they ...

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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 ...

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TORONTO — The Red Sox’ three-year absence from the playoffs, matching their longest in three decades, can end Thursday. Garrett Crochet’s eight-inning masterpiece carried the club to another win over ...

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.