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We can’t fix everything. But if it’s cheap and easy to save lives, why wouldn’t we?
Engineering students at Purdue University set a new Guinness World Record with their Rubik’s Cube-solving Purdubik’s Cube robot.
Most people worry about climate change, but few know what to do. The right tools allow us to convert scientific urgency into effective action.
For those who have wrestled a bulky couch around a tight corner and lamented, “Will this ever get through?” mathematicians have heard your pleas. Geometry’s “moving sofa problem” asks ...
The moving sofa problem, which deals with the math of how shapes can fit around corners, may have been solved by a Korean mathematician. UC Davis mathematician Dan Romik has made a study of the ...
Supply chains face numerous risks and disruptions, from geopolitical conflict to extreme weather events, labor disputes, and beyond. More than ever, supply chain professionals need creative thinking ...
Mathematicians Are Edging Close to Solving One of the World's 7 Hardest Math Problems And there’s $1 million at stake.
But a real-world problem-solving approach could help students be more engaged in the learning and gain a better understanding of how the topics they’re studying will be useful to them in the ...
A single Bitcoin miner has defied the odds by solving a Bitcoin block alone, netting them the full 3.125 Bitcoin (BTC) block reward. On April 28, software engineer and administrator from the solo ...
The Binomial test, sometimes referred to as the Binomial exact test, is a test used in sampling statistics to assess whether a proportion of a binary variable is equal to some hypothesized value. In ...