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Walk into a German supermarket looking for tofu, and you may find an empty shelf with a price tag still lingering. Germany is experiencing waves of to
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The regime in Havana is increasingly in the Trump administration’s crosshairs.
And what that means for Washington’s options to extract itself from this quagmire.
Houthi attacks on Saudi shipping risk adding a new front to the Iran war.
Oh well, my girlfriend says. My girlfriend is Canadian and it is quite difficult to explain to her that if you have any real fascination with English football, you cannot just walk away from a loss in the semifinals of the World Cup by saying “Oh well. ”
“It was heartbreaking, ” said one recipient of a false green card approval for his spouse because of a USCIS website snafu.
Beijing may be closing the gap with Washington in the AI race.
Nolan’s film confronts the betrayal of the West’s own values.
A man told me he had driven in from Philadelphia after dropping off his children at the game in New Jersey, preferring to watch it from Queens. Others had gone to MetLife hoping to catch a glimpse of the team without paying stadium prices.
Moderate Democrats want to put a stop to Trump’s meme coin self-dealing. But that might cut off campaign donations from crypto interests.
Pay off Iran to open Hormuz and freeze its nuclear program.
Ma Xingrui’s fall shows how deep personnel problems run.
His deal to provide nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia encourages weaponization.
One of the most contested issues in astrophysics is our understanding of the Universe’s expansion. Adam Riess discusses why there is disagreement and what might resolve it.
Every four years, the math world’s preeminent awards are given to the finest minds of a generation. The young winners — all under 40 on the first day of the year — have reshaped mathematics and theoretical computer science. Here are their stories. The post Fields and Abacus Medals 2026 first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms.
In April 2024 international news sources circulated a video of a talk delivered by a senior Israeli military official during a tech conference at Tel Aviv
Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal.
Determination and effort propelled Jacob Tsimerman to the top of the math world. But now that he’s won a Fields Medal, he worries that the field is in jeopardy.