Florida Virtual School senior Jessica Wan was the winner of the 15th Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) annual contest for female-identifying contestants, held Oct. 6-8 at MIT.
She scored 17 out of 20 questions, which added…
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NASA Is Locating Ice on Mars With This New Map
The map could help the agency decide where the first astronauts to the Red Planet should land. The more available water, the less missions will need to bring.
Buried ice will be a vital resource for the first people to set foot on Mars,…
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Geological puzzle of lost continent of Argoland solved
Approximately 155 million years ago, a 5000 km piece of continent broke off from western Australia, leaving behind a basin hidden below the ocean known as the Argo Abyssal Plain.
This underwater feature lends its name to the newly formed continent…
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The Moon is 40 million years older than previously thought
According to the giant-impact hypothesis (also known as the Theia Impact), the moon was formed when a giant object such as a protoplanet crashed into the Earth when the solar system was still young.
This celestial object is often referred to as…
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Cosmic radio burst offers path to weigh the Universe
In an article published in the latest issue of Science, Dr. Stuart Ryder from Macquarie University and Associate Professor Ryan Shannon from Swinburne University of Technology, leading a global team, have unveiled their groundbreaking discovery:…
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‘Is Math Real?’ asks simple questions to explore math’s deepest truths
Is Math Real?
Eugenia Cheng
Basic Books, $30Every mathematician has a story that goes something like this. You’re at a party, and someone asks what you do for a living. “I’m a mathematician,” you say. “You must be a…
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The Maya predicted annular solar eclipses
On October 14th, 2023, a celestial event will unfold as the Sun, Moon, and Earth, align to create an annular solar eclipse.
An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves between the Sun and Earth, but is positioned near its farthest point…
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An enduring Möbius strip mystery has finally been solved
Any attempt to better understand Möbius strips is bound to run into some kinks.
The twisted loops are so strange that mathematicians have struggled to answer some basic questions about them. For example: “What’s the shortest…
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Non-Western art and design can reveal alternate ways of thinking about math
“Help me and let me help you.” Or in Ghana’s Twi language: “Boa me na me mmoa wo.”
The aphorism signifies cooperation and interdependence. And like many Twi expressions, it can be communicated with a symbol, or adinkra….
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Geoscientists Discover Massive Undersea Water Reservoir Off New Zealand’s Coast
Revealed by 3D seismic imaging, the newly-discovered water reservoir lies 3.2 km (2 miles) under the ocean floor off the coast of New Zealand, where it may be dampening a major earthquake fault that faces the country’s North Island. The…
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