Bust of Asclepiades of Bithynia, an ancient Greek physician whose theories foreshadowed aspects of germ theory. Credit: CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses ...

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Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of ...

Scientists have developed a new alloy composed of multiple metals that exhibits nearly zero thermal expansion across an ...