Math Stories for 2016

Paintings Reveal Signs of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's In Famous Artists 24
Are Airlines Intentionally Overbooking Their Flights? 313
Facebook Discloses New Measurement Errors, Continues To Hone Its Math 36
Our Brains Use Binary Logic, Say Neuroscientists 69
Maths Zeroes in on Perfect Cup of Coffee 162
Maths Becomes Biology's Magic Number 75
Linux Foundation Shares LinuxCon Highlights 50
Researcher Modifies Sieve of Eratosthenes To Work With Less Physical Memory Space 78
When Blind People Do Algebra, the Brain's Visual Areas Light Up 69
US Would Be 28th In 'Hacking Olympics', China Would Take The Gold 112
20% of Scientific Papers On Genes Contain Conversion Errors Caused By Excel, Says Report 349
Galaxy Note 7 Iris Scanner Explained 77
One Year Later: Windows 10 Now Runs On Over 21% of All Desktops 272
Subscribers Pay 61 Cents Per Hour of Cable, But Only 20 Cents Per Hour of Netflix 174
The World's Oldest Computer May Have Predicted the Future 143
$30M Stampede 2 Supercomputer To Provide 18 Petaflops of Power To Researchers Nationwide 44
Universe Is Expanding Faster Than We Thought 146
US Death Rate Rises, Health Officials Aren't Sure Why 607
Computer Generates Largest Math Proof Ever At 200TB of Data 143
Billionaire Technologist Accuses NASA Asteroid Mission of Bad Statistics 207
Girls From Progressive Societies Do Better At Math, Study Finds 280
Seattle Seventh Grader Wins National Math Bee 106
Airline Delays Flight Over Passenger's Suspicious Math Equations 512
DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic 192
Golden State and the Mathematical Magic of Seventy-Three 102
SpaceX Delivers World's First Inflatable Room For Astronauts 102
Ocean Temps Predict US Heat Waves 50 Days Out, Study Finds 62
Supercomputers Help Researchers Improve Severe Hail Storm Forecasts 23
Scientists: What We're Doing To The Earth Has No Parallel In 66 Million Years 504
Facebook Exec Explains Why Technical Skills Aren't Enough To Be a Great Engineer 188
MIT Study Shows Stop Lights Won't Be Necessary In The Future 264
How Many Digits of Pi Does NASA Use? 174
GM, Lyft Working Toward Creating Autonomous Vehicle Ride-Sharing Network 38
Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy 227
Israeli 10th-Grader Discovers Elegant Geometry Theorem 173
Why Do We Work So Hard? 282
Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% 819
Incident Raises Concerns About a More Formal Spec For Bitcoin 80
Best Way To Mine Bitcoins - Allow Errors! 167
Even Einstein Doubted His Gravitational Waves 156
Interviews: Ask Author and Programmer Andy Nicholls About R 187
Listen To Hawking's Second Reith Lecture On Black Holes, Illustrated 17
Bitcoin Capitalist Opens Bounty For New Block Cipher 72
Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa 634
Ancient Babylonians Figured Out Forerunner of Calculus 153
Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? 238
Is Blockchain the Most Important IT Invention of Our Age? 190
Finally Calculated: All the Legal Positions In a 19x19 Game of Go 117
New Mersenne Prime Discovered, Largest Known Prime Number: 2^74,207,281 - 1 132

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