A powerful mathematical technique is used to model melting ice and other phenomena. But it has long been imperiled by certain ...

Our perception of our environment can deceive us. A map, although flat, effectively guides us through a space that, in reality, is not flat at all. We live on a giant sphere, a reality that goes ...

Researchers have solved a long-standing problem in topology by helping classify four-dimensional shapes (4-manifolds) that ...

Susanna Heikkilä solved a problem in topology, or mathematics pertaining to the shape ... The handiwork illustrates the mapping from the plane to a sphere, known as the Alexander map. Heikkilä knitted ...

Our perception of our environment can deceive us. A map, although flat, effectively guides us through a space that, in reality, is not flat at all. We live on a giant sphere, a reality that goes ...

Mathematicians sometimes think of their research as a garden and unsolved problems as seeds waiting to sprout. Some problems are analogous to tulip bulbs. As mathematicians work to solve them ...

Since opening its doors in September 2023, the Sphere in Las Vegas has offered an unprecedented concert experience. So how could live music’s most exciting new location be facing financial hardship?

Dead & Company have unfinished business in Las Vegas. The band, led by Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, along with John Mayer, are about to start a second Dead Forever residency at ...