As smart as we as a species are, Mother Nature almost always seems to have us beat. It’s true for things like brain surgery ...

Hula hooping is so commonplace that we may overlook some interesting questions it raises: "What keeps a hula hoop up against ...

Soon after discovering the shape in November 2022, he contacted a math professor and later, with two other academics, they released a self-published scientific paper about it.

And it all began with a hobbyist “messing about and experimenting with shapes.” Skip to content Skip to site index Science | Elusive ‘Einstein’ Solves a Longstanding Math Problem ...

Over the last two years, mathematicians have identified the best versions of a child’s playroom’s worth of shapes. These results occupy a quirky corner of math and, fittingly, have been produced by ...

This week, mathematicians announced the discovery of a single tile shape that produces aperiodic patterns. It’s the latest advance in a field that stretches back decades.

The shapes shown here come from a 1930 paper by Polish mathematician Kazimierz Kuratowski. In it, he discusses peanian continua, which are, roughly speaking, simple closed curves in the plane or ...

UK hobbyist stuns math world with ‘amazing’ new shapes. 13-sided polygon is single shape that can cover large fl at surface without repeating same pattern.

WRAPPING gifts in paper involves converting a 2D shape into a 3D one, which presents plenty of geometrical challenges. Mathematics can help with this, in particular by making sure that you are ...

2D shapes can be found printed in a book or you can draw them on a piece of paper. 2D shapes have sides and corners (also called vertices). Here are some 2D shapes you might know.