Srinivasa Ramanujan Was a Genius. Math Is Still Catching Up

By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ

Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.

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How AI Solved Protein Folding and Won a Nobel Prize

By CHRISTOPHER YOUNG

The inside story of how David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their advances in computer-assisted protein design and structure prediction.

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Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph

By BEN BRUBAKER

Dijkstra's algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph's best routes. Researchers have now proved that it's "universally optimal."

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In this episode, co-host Janna Levin speaks with evolutionary biologist Kevin de Queiroz about what makes defining and delineating species such a slippery process.

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