Prime numbers—numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves—have long fascinated mathematicians. This year a researcher discovered the largest known prime number, with a whopping 41,024,320 digits. It ...
Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...
Many fundamental processes of life, and their synthetic counterparts in nanotechnology, are based on the autonomous assembly of individual particles into complex patterns. LMU physicist Professor ...