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A new study shows that like humans, crows can recognize geometric regularity, making them the first nonhuman animal known to have this ability.
The Cardiac Dimensions Carillon Mitral Contour System is a minimally invasive mitral regurgitation therapy made possible by nitinol.
The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...
A new proof solves the “Kakeya conjecture” in three dimensions, opening up a new set of possibilities for mathematics, from computer science to cryptography ...
Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in Taranto, Italy, was another in a long line of polymaths from Ancient Greece.
Using advanced mathematical tools inspired by physics, the team has derived a general equation for any number of tangent ...
Monash University researchers have extended Descartes’ Circle Theorem by finding a general equation for any number of tangent ...
Henna Bakshi is the Regional Editor, South at Eater and an award-winning food and wine journalist with a WSET (Wine and ...
The field of cardio-oncology has expanded over the past 2 decades to address the ever-increasing issues related to cardiovascular disease in patients with cancer and survivors. There is increasing ...
“Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By).” It’s an iconic track made famous by one of the greatest country acts of all time: the Carter Family. Since its original release, this song has been ...
that circle has an area of π. To have the same area, a square—calculated by squaring the length of one side—would need each side to measure √π. So the great geometric puzzle of antiquity ...
Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, the Kakeya conjecture in 3D, which studies the shape left behind by a ...