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In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.

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The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.

Joseph Howlett is a math writer for Quanta Magazine. His articles have been published Scientific American, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Gizmodo, among other places. He has a Ph.D.

Millennia ago, Aristotle asserted that nature abhors a vacuum, reasoning that objects would fly through truly empty space at impossible speeds. In 1277, the French bishop Etienne Tempier shot back, ...