A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant doing away with traditional approaches. In May of 1694, in a lecture hall at ...

PORT EDWARDS — Programming robots is not the traditional way for students to learn arithmetic, but that's exactly how a Port Edwards class is learning new math concepts. Port Edwards Elementary School ...

Mathematicians like to generalize concepts into higher dimensions. Sometimes this is easy. If you want to efficiently pack squares in two dimensions, you arrange them like a checkerboard. To squeeze ...

Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney as they review the top hacks for the week. It was a real retro-fest this time, with a C64 built from (mostly) new parts, an ...

A little person hurls orange-like bullets at the wall, at the ceiling, at the floor. The bullet-y fruit doesn't explode, it doesn't kill, it doesn't destroy. As it ricochets from surface to surface, ...

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