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Mathematics: General Mathematics: Modeling Mathematics: Puzzles
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The math problem that took nearly a century to solve: Secret to Ramsey numbers      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have foun...

Chemistry: General Chemistry: Inorganic Chemistry
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A step closer to digitizing the sense of smell: Model describes odors better than human panelists      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A main crux of neuroscience is learning how our senses translate light into sight, sound into hearin...

Mathematics: General
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Number-crunching mathematical models may give policy makers major headache - Number-Crunching Mathematical Models May Give Policy Makers Major Headache      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Policy makers assume that adding more detail to mathematical models will produce more accurate predi...

Biology: Evolutionary
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A new model offers an explanation for the huge variety of sizes of DNA in nature - A New Model Explains the Diversity of DNA Sizes in Nature      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A new model offers a possible solution to the scientific question of why neutral sequences, sometime...

Environmental: Ecosystems
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Evolution: South Africa's hominin record is a fair-weather friend - Evolution: South Africa's Hominin Record is a Fair-Weather Friend      (via sciencedaily.com) 

The fossil record of early hominins in South Africa is biased towards periods of drier climate, sugg...

Space: Exploration Space: General Space: The Solar System
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Understanding the moon's history with Chang'e-5 sample      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

China's Chang'e-5, the first lunar sample return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, d...

Space: Astrophysics
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Stars disappear before our eyes - Stars Disappear Before Our Eyes: The Mystery of Vanishing Stars      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A startling analysis from Globe at Night -- a citizen science program -- concludes that stars are di...