A new study by mathematicians at Freie Universität Berlin shows that planar tiling, also known as tessellation, is far more than a decorative ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

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Americans have a knack for turning the price of food into national theatre. In 1916 housewives boycotted “egg speculators” for daring to charge 36.5 cents a dozen. Three decades later President Harry ...

The Las Vegas Raiders' offense has struggled mightily this season, despite their multiple offseason additions to improve their offense. Geno Smith and Ashton Jeanty were supposed to breathe new life ...

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

A growing number of Americans could soon be living in shopping malls, as builders look to reinvent dying retail spaces to fix the nation’s housing shortage. The math is simple: there are not enough ...

Megan Barroso was looking forward to her Fourth of July plans in 2001. Perhaps because the 20-year-old Moorpark College student had no intention to be alone: She was going to attend a friend’s family ...