For the flat Earth theorists out there, what if there was a happy compromise between a flat and round planet? How about a polyhedron? From triangles to cubes, polyhedrons come in all shapes and sizes.

U.S. stocks opened largely flat on Wednesday, kicking off a shortened regular trading session due to Christmas Eve. Markets will close at 1300 ET today and will be shut on Thursday. Traders received ...

A team at the University at Buffalo has made it possible to simulate complex quantum systems without needing a supercomputer. By expanding the truncated Wigner approximation, they’ve created an ...

The beauty of each World Cup is the attention to detail and how each edition weaves in the traditions and characteristics of the host nations. And that's especially true with the official match ball.

Google is rolling out a “More content” button for RCS messages with rich card carousels in its Messages app. The new button will expand rich card carousels into a full-screen, swipeable view to show ...

Every four years, soccer fans eagerly await the sport’s biggest event: the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup. But before each dramatic kickoff, artists and researchers ...

UPDATE: Adidas officially unveiled the 2026 FIFA World Cup’s new Trionda ball on October 2, 2025, in New York City. We have added a photo from this unveiling to the below story about the mathematics ...

Fullerenes are molecules composed entirely of carbon with spherical (buckyballs), ellipsoid, tubular (nanotubes) or a combination shape (nanobuds). They consist of hexagonal and pentagonal (sometimes ...

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July 11 (Reuters) - Deliveries of F-35 jets to the U.S. military are set to resume shortly without the complete TR-3 software upgrade, the head of the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) said on Thursday.

A team of physicists has created a maze that they claim is the most difficult, using a pattern from the game of chess to make the structure. To the untrained eye, the maze looks like the most ...