For 50 years, scientists believed that schools of fish would save the most energy by swimming in flat diamond formations.

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Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Granada have found a way to speed up the architectural design of vaults and ...

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Recently, a team of researchers led by Ayhan Yurtsever, Takeshi Fukuma, and Linhao Sun from Kanazawa University, in collaboration with Yuhei Hayamizu at the Institute of Science Tokyo and Mehmet ...

The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...