Power plants worldwide that are cooled by seawater face challenges from scale and barnacles that obstruct pipes and waste energy. Israeli startup Ceal Minerals offers a solution that overcomes these ...

This video shows how to solve algebra problems using geometry, offering a visual approach that makes abstract equations easier to understand. By translating algebra into shapes and spatial ...

What happens when your fitness tracker stops working? That happens more often than expected, especially considering how often fitness trackers get used daily. If you own a Fitbit device — and I’m sure ...

Abstract: Like other problems in network tomography or traffic matrix estimation, the location of congested IP links from end-to-end measurements requires solving a system of equations that relate the ...

When Myra Donohue’s father, who is a financial planner, offered to help her with her finances, she politely declined. With a background in accounting, she didn’t want anyone else’s help managing her ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

Keep going. If you stack as many blocks as you can, what is the farthest overhang you can achieve before the entire structure topples? Is it possible for the tower to extend a full block length beyond ...

The U.S. faces a housing crisis and growing threats of climate change. One global city is tackling both problems at once, and U.S. cities are paying attention. In this episode of The Sunday Story, NPR ...

PDFS saw its stock price decline in the last two years for various reasons, but the stock has been moving higher lately. Growth came to a standstill, but growth is expected to accelerate according to ...

Two mathematicians have used a new geometric approach in order to address a very old problem in algebra. In school, we often learn how to multiply out and factor polynomial equations like (x² – 1) or ...

Solving one of the oldest algebra problems isn't a bad claim to fame, and it's a claim Norman Wildberger can now make: The mathematician has solved what are known as higher-degree polynomial equations ...