The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is working to sell tens of thousands of acres of the state’s most pristine land to the federal government. The plan involves about 80,000 acres — or 125 ...

Experts have called into question the likelihood of the government approving “complicated” boundary changes drawn around parish lines as part of local government reorganisation. Of the 21 two-tier ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To the untrained eye, the specimen resembles a piece of golden tortellini ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

The herpes simplex virus (HSV) antibodies test is a type of herpes simplex test that determines whether or not you’ve ever been exposed to this virus. Specifically, it’s a blood test that looks for ...

It might sound counterintuitive, but your relationships can benefit from rules and limitations. Credit...Vanessa Saba Supported by By Christina Caron These are things people might say when they claim ...

When dealing with higher dimensions in geometry, it is often instructive to start with lower ones and work your way up. If we start with two points, which are by definition each of zero dimension, we ...

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Lukas Leaf has been camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for decades, but he fears that pressure on the environmental protections that have long kept the famed Minnesota waterway from ...