A sigil is an inscribed or painted symbol considered to have magical powers. This magic sigil could win you a gift card for Tucker’s Ice Cream if you can solve the puzzle. The base is a Golden ...

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man has been puzzling scholars for centuries. Da Vinci, who was not only a famous artist but also an inventor, engineer, and scientist studying subjects like human ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel method for efficiently handling strand-solid and self-collisions using air meshes. Traditional collision handling at the primitive level requires extensive ...

The Helfrich theory of membrane bending, supported by molecular dynamics simulations, is a promising approach for evaluating mechanical properties of graphene nanosheets, report researchers from the ...

How a centuries-old math puzzle helped us see inside the human brain. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, uncovers the ...

Challenge your mind with this optical illusion puzzle that tests your observation and problem-solving skills. The image contains overlapping triangles, requiring careful attention to detail to spot ...

About a decade ago Tonan Kamata, now a mathematician at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), stood mesmerized in front of a math museum’s origamilike exhibit. It featured a ...

Tonan Kamata, center, and Ryuhei Uehara, right, of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) and Jin Akiyama, a professor emeritus at the Tokyo University of Science, are seen in ...

The optimal solution to the problem of dividing an equilateral triangle into the minimal number of pieces and recombining them into a square, known as "Dudeney's Puzzle," has been proven after 120 ...

Mathematicians have proven that Henry Dudeney’s 1907 four-piece dissection of an equilateral triangle into a square is optimal. Using matching diagrams, researchers from JAIST and MIT showed that no ...

Over 120 years ago, Henry Ernest Dudeney posed the famous dissection problem of transforming a triangle into a square by cutting it into as few pieces as possible. In a new study, researchers have ...