For those of you who take sandcastle building very seriously, listen up: engineers now say you can trust a very simple equation to calculate the force required to push a shovel -- and any other ...

In grade school, you were probably constantly drilled on mathematics. Whether it be multiplication tables, simple addition, or complicated division, it was taught over and over again that quick math ...

To calculate the amount of carbon stored inside peatlands, researchers developed a unified theory of “bog physics” applicable around the world. A visit to a peat bog will make you rethink everything ...

The brainteaser, which has gone viral on X (formerly Twitter), appears to show four basic equations. At first glance, the equation seemingly shows a pattern, one that is not easily cracked. Can you ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Power electronic system designers know about natural convection, which starts with the simple statement: Hot air rises. For example, a power ...

Netizens have been left scratching their heads for the correct answer to this simple question and chances are it’ll leave you confused too. Mathematics has always had its fair share of haters, ...

It seems like a 'simple' maths equation, but the worse thing is that in this brainteaser, there's is no obvious answer. The subject splits opinion in schools and universities, and while some people ...

From the very first days of the world wide web, engineers used webcrawlers (automated bots that move randomly between websites) to collect information about the newly created sites. But the question ...

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In grade school, you were probably constantly drilled on mathematics. Whether it be multiplication tables, simple addition, or complicated division, it was taught over and over again that quick math ...