{
  "id": 476403,
  "title": "The hidden mathematics behind why you find things beautiful",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/the-hidden-mathematics-behind-why-you-find-things-beautiful",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-10T14:10:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Big Think",
    "slug": "big-think",
    "url": "https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/the-hidden-mathematics-behind-why-you-find-things-beautiful/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "“Some people will hate what I say,” the mathematician Marcus du Sautoy tells me, “because it’s all about unweaving the rainbow. Some people want to retain the magic and don’t want to know why something’s working. That’s fine. But actually, for me, you know, the rainbow becomes much more interesting when you understand what is happening to the light that makes the rainbow like that.” Du Sautoy ,…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}