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An exciting new study reveals the hidden genetic architecture of quantitative ability, showing how brain wiring and signaling shape math skills independently of general intelligence. Study: A genetic ...

Japan's Tsuneishi Shipbuilding said the Tsuneishi Group (Zhoushan) Shipbuilding Inc. - its shipbuidling factory in China - has completed the first block loading for its first Methanol-Fueled 5,900-TEU ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known for less ...

Beer is best served cold, and it turns out that math can help with that. Cláudio de Castro Pellegrini of the Federal University of São João del-Rei in Brazil recently set out to formulate an equation ...

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You can see it in the logarithmic whorl of a nautilus. The milky iridescence of an abalone. The spiked turret of a queen conch. Precision, elegance, strength. The seashell is a consonance of form and ...

Two mathematicians have proved a long-standing conjecture that is a step on the way toward finding the worst shape for packing the plane. For centuries, mathematicians suspected that hexagonal tiles ...

The green garment and textile centre is expected to save an estimated 18 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually and conserve 1,000 cubic meters of water per year. Credit: Shutterstock Already ...

' Immersive Math ' is a free textbook site that makes linear algebra, a field of mathematics that studies calculations such as vectors and matrices, easier to understand by providing interactive ...

The video explains how earlier potato chips would get easily broken, which inspired Pringles to come up with this unique shape. "In the 1950s, potato chips were getting a lot of complaints from ...