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By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians have gained important new insights into the nature of graphs. The post The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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In 2025, Insilico Medicine developed an experimental drug called rentosertib as a treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a severe age-related lung disease.
In 2025, associate professor Christian Busch's Palisades home burned down in one of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles history.
An ancient cave in southwestern China has revealed new evidence about how Denisovans—an ancient human relative—lived, survived and adapted over more than 100,000 years.
A huge analysis probes the genetics of personality, finding that the trait is much less straightforward than physical attributes like eye color.
In the years following the Wright brothers’ 1903 takeoff, aircraft were designed via what a NASA history calls “an intuitive, daring empirical engineering loosely connected at best with any theory of aerodynamics or structural integrity.” Plane makers had some ideas about how to mimic flight while on the ground, but these were crude…
Europe's climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest month ever recorded worldwide and warned of worse to come as an unprecedented El Niño pattern grows stronger.
