With 3D printed arms of fixed measurements, the depth reading from a set of digital calipers can be used to calculate the radius of a curve. Specialized tools that focus on one particular job tend to ...

The mathematical mind does not take weekends off. It is a way of looking at the world — its shapes, its patterns, its tendencies — that finds expression just as readily on a sleepy Sunday as any other ...

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman and U.S. Space Forces Indo-Pacific commander, Brig. Gen. Anthony Mastalir, meet at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, May 3, 2024. Credit: U.S. Air ...

Most experts recommend getting seven to nine hours of sleep a night — so why do we sometimes get a full night’s rest and still wake up feeling tired? It may have something to do with the point in the ...

An astronomer says he’s identified the odds of intelligent life existing elsewhere in the universe based on an analysis of both the likelihood of life developing quickly within a planet’s life cycle ...

Rajesh Parikh hopes teaching the way of Vedic math will add up to big bucks for his company, Alpha Math Station. But he doesn't necessarily tout the source of the math shortcuts: Hindu scriptures ...

Imagine a world in which it is possible for an elite group of hackers to install a “backdoor” not on a personal computer but on the entire U.S. economy. Imagine that they can use it to cryptically ...