We can tie knots in three dimensions because one-dimensional ropes “catch on each other”. This is why a long rope wound around itself, if done right, won’t come apart. We trust knots with our lives ...

EMO Hannover 2025 was held in Hanover, Germany from September 22–26, bringing together a global cross-section of the metalworking supply chain. With more than 90,000 manufacturing professionals ...

Since the third Gaia data release in 2022, wide binary stars with separation greater than several thousand astronomical units have been intensely investigated across the world, to probe the nature of ...

In 2024, Netflix released a television series called ‘3 Body Problem,’ which takes its name from a real mathematical puzzle that has stumped scientists and astronomers for centuries. The problem is ...

Atoms in molecules occupy fixed positions, connected by rigid rods. A molecule such as formic acid (methanoic acid, HCOOH) is ...

Another day, another Google AI model. Google has really been pumping out new AI tools lately, having just released Gemini 3 in November. Today, it’s bumping the flagship model to version 3.1. The new ...

The top four teams in college basketball are playing each other all on the same day, something that's happened only twice before.

Scientists in China have leveraged AI to solve Isaac Newton's kissing number problem in dimensions 25-31, where work had ...