You know the Vitruvian Man. He’s perhaps second only to the Mona Lisa in terms of iconic imagery in Western history: a ...

For more than five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man has invited admiration but also bafflement. With its harmonious symmetry of limbs outstretched in both a square and a circle, the ...

Understanding the meaning of "equals" in mathematics tells us a lot about both the nuance and richness in the field, but also how ideas of equality are used or misused in life ...

The team’s orb rolled vertically at a rate of about 0.5 millimeters per second. Regardless, Mitra and colleagues wrote that their observation “challenges our basic understanding of physics,” with ...

The length dimension associated with a sphere is its radius, r as illustrated in the diagram below. Unlike the other objects we have considered, a sphere does not have an exact net because it is ...

For example, on a flat surface, the angles of a triangle always add up to 180 degrees, but on a curved surface, they can add up to more or less than 180 degrees.

It's impossible for our eyes to grasp the size of the spherical Earth when we are standing on it. You couldn't even visualize the Earth as a sphere by climbing to the top of Mount Everest, which rises ...

The primary reason for curved flight paths is the Earth’s shape. Let’s go back to basic geography for a bit. The Earth is not flat but a sphere (more accurately, an oblate spheroid), so the shortest ...

Medtronic EVP Sean Salmon explains Similarities between the Sphere-9 and Sphere-360 cardiac PFA catheters Medtronic’s Affera Sphere-360 pulsed field ablation catheter is adjustable, allowing it to ...

At first glance, the UFC's approach to celebrating Mexican Independence Day this coming weekend seems perplexing. UFC 306, which takes place Saturday at Sphere in Las Vegas, is headlined by a ...

For research on the electromagnetic wave scattering by large objects/particles, the tangent plane approximation is often used with Physical Optics (PO) due to its efficiency and accuracy, like ...