For over 150 years, a rule of thumb dating back to the French mathematician Pierre Ossian Bonnet has been accepted in surface ...

LEAP71 continues to break records, this time with the world’s largest 3D-printed aerospike rocket engine. There’s quite a story behind this feat. Aerospike engines are very different from conventional ...

Source: ChatGPT modified by NostaLab. This story is about complexity, advanced math, cognition, and machine computation. But hold on. For this exercise, my task is to take this complex idea and reduce ...

Ashley has been writing about video games professionally for over eight years, but her path into gaming journalism wasn't exactly a straight line. She grew up playing games and got a Nintendo 64 when ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we can easily forget that we live on a round planet. We’re so small in comparison to the Earth that ...

A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, forming ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, SN 2024ggi, revealed a surprisingly olive-shaped blast when studied with ...

The international system has been ruptured. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, gridlock at the un, growing American mercantilism and paralysis at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have all contributed to ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Dr. Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University, founder of Equal Opportunity Ventures and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Call it MAG: mutually assured gerrymandering. First ...