The US on Saturday, February 28, 2026, launched Operation Epic Fury, a joint operation with Israel aimed at eliminating the top leadership of Iran over its uranium enrichment and ballistic missiles ...

Wrapping awkwardly shaped Christmas presents is always a headache, but here's the formula for perfect gift wrap. You've carefully chosen the presents. You have scissors, tape and even some rolls of ...

How bees, beer cans and big data all solve the same problem: not enough space. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, ...

Packing for a trip can be equally exciting and overwhelming. It's a real challenge to efficiently distill a closet full of clothes into a practical travel wardrobe without overpacking (a task loaded ...

The microstructure of physical networks, where 3D nodes and links obey volume exclusion, is key to understanding their function. Here, we develop a simple model of physical links randomly connecting ...

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The 5-4-3-2-1 packing method is such an ingenious problem solver and so space saving that it’s a little frustrating to think how long it took us to learn about it. We could have been doing just ...

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On April 11, 2020, John Horton Conway died of COVID-19 at the age of 82 in New Brunswick, N.J. The areas of research covered by this remarkable mathematician included group theory, node theory, ...

How to safely reopen offices, schools and other public spaces while keeping people six feet apart comes down to a question mathematicians have been studying for centuries. Sphere packing might seem ...