Whether you're a frequent flyer or just occasionally jet off with mates or family, there are probably a few curious questions that have crossed your mind, such as why cabin lights are dimmed during ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an object is flat with a ...

Wiz Khalifa seemingly believes Earth is flat. The rapper joins a small but vocal community of celebrities who have expressed similar views in recent years. The ‘Black and Yellow’ rapper has rejected ...

Abstract: Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are anticipated to be indispensable in extending coverage and enabling global communication access in next-generation wireless networks. With the extensive ...

Crows are able to look at a handful of four-sided shapes and correctly distinguish those that exhibit geometric regularity from those that don't, according to a provocative new study. It's the first ...

It was already a mind-bending shift, last century, to go from Isaac Newton’s absolute space and universal time to Albert Einstein’s four-dimensional space-time, which is dynamic, flexible, sensitive ...

I am creating a spherical arrangement from a curve on a sphere. This curve represents a closed spherical triangle, it should split the sphere into two faces: one for the triangle, another for the ...

Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Alisa Sparks has grown her ...

IN modern treatises on crystallography, the crystal is imagined projected radially on the surface of a sphere, and the spherical triangles so obtained are dealt with by spherical trigonometry.