There is a rule in mathematics that feels so obvious it barely seems worth stating. Yet accepting it leads to objects with no ...

Students at Mifflinburg Area High School have an opportunity to use STEM concepts to create physical objects with their own ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

So the mathematician's answer is that humans have either seven or eight holes. In the end, the question is not just about ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, led by Queen’s University Belfast, have revealed that millions of new solar system objects will be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to ...

is the director of the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China and professor emeritus at Harvard University in Massachusetts, US. He is the co-author, most recently, ...

The University of Manchester has been gifted a unique mathematical object known as a Gömböc - the first known physical example of a new class of shapes called mono-monostatics. The Gömböc is tangible ...

Earlier today I set you the following counterintuitive puzzle, about a curious object that fits through a small hole, but not through a big one. Here it is again with solutions. Design an object that ...