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News reports about Mathematics & science

Every link here is both a news report and about mathematics & science.

Hall of Fame: 3
Candidates: 10
Median span: 4.4 yrs
First seen: 2010

Strongest Hall records

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An earthquake could destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest (2015)

www.newyorker.com 19 submissions · 11 people · 9.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2025-04-23

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Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates

www.theverge.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-03 Resurfaced 2024-03-26

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Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

www.extremetech.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-10 Resurfaced 2015-02-04

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Recently resurfaced

latest 20+ point return

An earthquake could destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest (2015)

www.newyorker.com 19 submissions · 11 people · 9.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-01 Resurfaced 2025-04-23

612max pts

Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates

www.theverge.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-03 Resurfaced 2024-03-26

621max pts

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

www.extremetech.com 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2015-10 Resurfaced 2015-02-04

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Candidates

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Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms (2013)

www.smithsonianmag.com 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-04-26

Needs:5 submissions

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Paleontologists are trying to understand why the fossil record is mostly males

www.atlasobscura.com 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-04-15

Needs:5 submissions

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Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem

www.quantamagazine.org 4 submissions · 4 people · 7.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-06-05

Needs:5 submissions

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The Legendary Study That Embarrassed Wine Experts (2014)

www.realclearscience.com 5 submissions · 2 people · 8.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-02-14

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart3 submitters

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A Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges

www.quantamagazine.org 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-08-24

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge

www.quantamagazine.org 3 submissions · 3 people · 8.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-01-23