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Starship demonstrated key abilities on its path to becoming a fully reusable transport for astronauts to the moon ...

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The 2026 Fields Medals recognize breakthroughs in the math of messy fluids, tangled knots, spinning pencils, and more ...

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Joan Birman popularized the Burau representation problem decades ago. Now she and two colleagues have a proof that reveals ...

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