Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai, China, is a major financial backer of a New York City-based nonprofit called the ...

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Integrating case counts with genomic sequences quantifies real-time transmission advantages of viral variants.

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Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people approximate his solution on their own.

Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. In a new paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, mathematicians ...