Mathematicians present the Nopertedro: a Rupert property solid that broke an old myth by preventing one copy from passing ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and research catalyst. The human eye is drawn to the rhythmic beauty of tiled patterns, which occur ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, Italy, his office at the International School for Advanced ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Abstract: Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) provide a pathway between the human brain and extrinsic equipment which have been widely used in rehabilitation robots. Disabled people can directly command ...