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A 58-year-old lecturer who had published no original work in 12 years, and who had spent years keeping the books at a friend's Subway sandwich shop, mailed a paper to the Annals of Mathematics on April 17, 2013. Just over a month later it was accepted: pairs of consecutive primes less than 70 million apart occur infinitely often.

17+ hour, 21+ min ago   (342+ words) An obscure adjunct, working at a Subway while publishing nothing, solved a centuries-old problem that had defeated the world's elite mathematicians. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 12, 2026 · How we edit By the time he submitted, he had published no…...

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A divorce-prediction equation was 90 percent accurate on the data it was built from, but when it flagged a couple as heading for divorce in a fresh sample it was right only 29 percent of the time, which is the trouble with rules like these

4+ week, 11+ hour ago   (887+ words) A breakthrough divorce prediction model lost its power in the real world, revealing how statistical success in the lab can mask failure where it counts. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Graeme Brown Published August 16, 2026 · How we edit The…...