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Discover how Google’s latest Doodle turns a 4,000-year-old math marvel into a fun, hands-on learning moment for kids, parents, and curious minds.

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PNAS is the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serial. It publishes high-impact research reports, commentaries, perspectives, reviews, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. In ...

Repeating number patterns, known as angel numbers, are believed to carry spiritual messages. Each sequence, like 111 for new beginnings or 222 for balance, offers guidance. Numbers such as 444 signify ...

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For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers.

A record number of Americans applied for British citizenship between January and March, according to the first set of data covering the start of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. Some 1,931 ...

Abstract: Copy-number variations (CNVs) are associated with complex diseases and particular tumor types. Array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) is a common approach for the detection of ...