What do you do after solving the mystery to life, the universe, and also everything? If you are mathematicians Drew Sutherland and Andy Booker, you go for the more challenging issue. The first to discover the answer to 42 were Booker at the University of Bristol, and Sutherland, the leading research scientist at MIT, in...
Credit: Canvas In high school math classes, play often disappears from the learning process. However, Kathy Sun is finding new ways to make math playful in high school. According to Sun, students usually focus on mastering procedures in math, rather than understanding math's broader contributions and community aspects. Sun, who is a researcher and professor at...
Credit: Canvas Movies have the power to change our minds, push our limits, and inspire us to aspire for more. It doesn't matter whether you are a student, a worker, or a boss; developing the habit of watching movies and series related to your field or area of interest can take you to the next...
Credit:Unsplash / Dan Cristian Pădureț. Carl Friedrich Gauss famously declared mathematics the "queen of the sciences." However, as history's renowned mathematician, he might have been slightly biased. Ask a physicist, and she might retort with the provocative analogy that "physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation." But regardless of whether mathematics wears the crown, it undoubtedly stands...
Credit: Lab manager A diverse group of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and medical scientists has unveiled an unforeseen connection between fundamental mathematics and genetics, shedding light on neutral mutation structure and evolutionary patterns in organisms. Number theory, the exploration of positive integer properties, represents a quintessential form of mathematics. Its apparent abstraction may seem incompatible with the...
Mehau Kulyk / Science Source The solutions to Einstein's formulas that describe a spinning black holes will not explode, even when poked or prodded. In 1963, the mathematician Roy Kerr discovered a solution to Einstein's formulas that precisely described the space-time outside what we currently call a rotating black hole. (The term wouldn't be created for...
Several science students may imagine a ball rolling down a hill or a car skidding due to friction as prototypical examples of the systems physicists care about. However, much of modern physics consists of looking for objects and essentially invisible sensations: the small electrons of quantum physics and the particles concealed within odd steels...
Mathematicians would like to know if equations concerning fluid circulation can break down or "explode" in certain circumstances. Credit: Quanta Magazine. For more than 250 years, mathematicians have been attempting to "blow up" a few of one of the most important formulas in physics. Those explain exactly how liquids circulate. If they are successful, they...
A Different Kind of Queen's Gambit Harvard mathematician greatly settles 150-year-old chess problem involving most potent piece on board. In the game of chess, the queen is considered the most powerful piece on the board because of its ability to move in any direction along the rank, file, or diagonal it is placed on. This makes...
Scientists from the University of Kent, the Research Institute for Environment Treatment, and Vita-Market Ltd have found the universal mathematical formula that can explain any bird's egg existing in nature, which has been unsuccessful previously. Egg-shape has long drawn in the interest of mathematicians, engineers, and biologists from an analytical point of view. The shape...
