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NSF awards record number of coveted PhD fellowships in surprise move

Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after the U.S. funding giant slashed its Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards in half

The science behind the peptide craze

The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence

Master of chaos wins $3M math prize for ‘blowing up’ equations

For decades, the mathematician Frank Merle has been embracing the messy math behind lasers and fluids

Why game theory could be critical in a nuclear war

Military strategists use game theory to evaluate possible strategies—but there are limits to what this approach to decision-making can achieve

How a Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

A dispute over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led early mathematicians to invent modern risk assessment