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Tiny Balls Fit Best Inside A Sausage, Physicists Confirm

Mathematicians have long been fascinated by the most efficient way of packing spheres in a space, an ...
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Developing task design principles to foster students’ recognition of relativity ...

Although a typical mathematical task has a single correct answer, in some cases, the assumptions of ...
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What The Mathematics of Knots Reveals About The Shape of ...

Knot theory is linked to many other branches of science, including those that tell us about the cosm ...
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How Mathematics Can Help You Divide Anything Up Fairly

Whether you are sharing a cake or a coastline, maths can help make sure everyone is happy with their ...
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Mathematicians Find 27 Tickets That Guarantee UK National Lottery Win

Buying a specific set of 27 tickets for the UK National Lottery will mathematically guarantee that y ...
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Knot tiles

Knot patterns (which might not actually represent knots, but just braids or plaits), like the one sh ...
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Make Mine a Double: Moore’s Law And The Future of ...

Our present achievements will look like child’s play in a few years. What do iPhones, Twitter, Netfl ...
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Commutative Diagrams Explained

Have you ever come across the words “commutative diagram” before? Perhaps you’ve r ...
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From thousands to millions to billions to trillions to quadrillions ...

Here’s a game: Ask a friend to give you any number and you’ll return one that’s bigger. Just add “1” ...
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Mathematics confirm the chaos of the Spanish labor market

Unemployment time series in Spain behave in a chaotic way according to a study at the University of ...
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Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study ...

The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony, ...
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Contact networks have no influence on cooperation among individuals

This is a simulation of a network of people playing Prisoner’s Dilemma. Red are cooperators; b ...
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Mathematical model connects innovation and obsolescence to unify insights across ...

In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice, “It takes all t ...
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An algorithm that shapes objects to cause them to roll ...

A team of physicists and mathematicians at the Institute for Basic Science’s Center for Soft a ...
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Explicit teaching in mathematics: Effective assessment

Assessment is key to planning. Knowing where your students are at allows you to plan for their next ...
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Cold math, hot topic: Applied theory offers new insights into ...

An upside-down sea ice slab showcasing brine channels that facilitate the drainage of liquid brine a ...
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