It is well-known that Pythagoras’ ancient Greek equation for right triangles: a2+ b2= c2 , is older than ancient Greece. We also know that in Khufu’s pyramid the height equals the radius of a circle ...
Abstract: Flexible and wearable piezoresistive pressure sensors are attracting great attention for applications in healthcare monitoring, human–machine interfaces (HMIs), soft robotics, and human ...
Let us then return to the Great Pyramid. Why was it built in the first place? According to the ancient Egyptian sources the pyramids were built to reflect the primeval mound that had emerged from the ...
Abstract: We present RAPPIDS: a novel collision checking and planning algorithm for multicopters that is capable of quickly finding local collision-free trajectories given a single depth image from an ...
The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...
Chinampa Veneta. Mexican pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2025. Image © Ricardo de la Concha Whether rising to the highest room of the tallest ...
The Great Pyramid of Giza has long been celebrated as one of the greatest architectural feats of the ancient world. Standing tall as the last surviving wonder of the ancient world, it has captivated ...
A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. In 360 BCE, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an ...
A troubling math problem that led to a "heated conversation" among one fifth-grader's family has sparked similar debate on social media. Math differs from other subjects in that the answers students ...
The film explores different geometric shapes, focusing on cylinders, rectangular prisms, and pyramids. It describes the properties of each shape, such as the curved surface of a cylinder, the ...
The roundest country (left, Sierra Leone) and the squarest country (right, Egypt), with flags overlaid. Some countries are long and thin, others compact and nearly symmetrical. Some follow natural ...