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When Meaning Becomes Geometry
17+ hour, 47+ min ago (36+ words) There’s a sentence I keep returning to, one I first read in a paper and then couldn’t stop thinking about: a word is known by the company it keeps. It sounds like …...
Pythagoras Won’t Balance Your Books
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Pythagoras won???t balance your books
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (568+ words) Every year, thousands of Arts students struggle with mathematics. Some fail it repeatedly. Some lose university opportunities because of it. Others leave school convinced that they are simply “bad at maths.” Perhaps the problem is not always the student. Perhaps,…...
There are just five perfect shapes in math—here's why
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (592+ words) Admittedly, their names offer no special aesthetic appeal. But their forms are unique. Platonic solids are polyhedrons with the highest possible symmetry. Each of their faces is bounded by the same number of edges, and the same number of faces…...
Is self-processing conserved across primate species' brains?
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (164+ words) Comparisons between macaque, chimpanzee, and human brains reveal which aspects of self-processing brain architecture are conserved and which aspects have reorganized during evolution. Credit: Jianxiong Ruan et al., 2026. New in JNeurosci, Ning Liu, from the Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy…...
Eight of ten blue-throated macaws slid a feeder door upward after watching another macaw do it, and not one of the five tested without a demonstrator went that way on its own, though the researchers say the species is too rare for them to prove it was imitation
1+ week, 2+ day ago (439+ words) The result held on one device and did not reach significance on the other, and the paper's own summaries carry that result further than its statistics do. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 4, 2026 · How we edit Five blue-throated macaws…...
Announcing the winners: Maths Tales competition
1+ week, 3+ day ago (103+ words) Scottish Book Trust Announcing the winners: Maths Tales competition During Maths Week Scotland in September, the Maths Tales writing competition was launched. Maths Week Scotland and Read Write Count with the First Minister teamed up to challenge young authors in…...
Ancient Geometry Hits the Screen: Ohio’s Hopewell Earthworks Featured in Public Television Series 'How It’s Math"
1+ week, 5+ day ago (194+ words) COLUMBUS, Ohio — Long before modern surveying equipment, computers, or blueprints existed, ancient Native Americans utilized sophisticated geometry to construct monumental earthen architecture across southern Ohio. Now, that ancient mathematical mastery is taking center stage for a national audience of young…...
Scientists Say: Symmetry
1+ week, 6+ day ago (596+ words) Repeating patterns in shapes build everything from snowflakes to the body plans of life By folding a piece of paper in half and cutting a shape — such as a heart — from both sides at once, you can make a shape…...
Heisuke Hironaka obituary: mathematician who smoothed out geometry’s complexities
2+ week, 2+ day ago (217+ words) His awe-inspiring proof for the resolution of singularities — such as peaks, edges and self-crossings — revolutionized algebraic geometry....