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A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

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A draft assessment of the health of nature in the United States is grim but shot through with bright spots and possibility. By Catrin Einhorn An unusual outbreak of wildfires in city parks gave ...

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