The law's reach never stretched this far.

Everyone knows you can’t visibly bend light over short distances in free air. Or can you? [Jack Pearse] has figured out a way to do it though, or at least make it appear that way. He does it by ...

For the Euclidean single facility location problem, E. Weiszfeld proposed a simple closed-form iterative algorithm in 1937. Later, numerous authors proved that it is a convergent descent algorithm. In ...

Through a group theoretic set up, using actions and invariant measures, the hyperboloid distribution is introduced as a very 'natural' probability measure on the unit-hyperboloid. This set up also ...

In a small town near the U.S.-Mexico border, a lofty dream could become a towering reality. Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current ...

Footage shows a demonstration of the single-sheet hyperboloid model. A math enthusiast used a straight road to illustrate how it could ingeniously pass through a narrow hyperbolic slit, demonstrating ...

MODERN technology appears to have saved a Soviet relic, following a smartphone vote on the fate of the extraordinary Shukhov Tower. Often described as a Muscovite Eiffel Tower, the 92-year-old ...

The film is dedicated to the outstanding Russian engineer, inventor, scientist Vladimir Shukhov. Under his leadership, about 500 bridges were designed and built, the first oil pipeline in Russia, the ...