A researcher uses numbers to show how to build the best wing or fin. Specifically, he wanted to know how flexible the wings or fins should be, so that if an engineer designed a flying or swimming ...

If you had to design a bird or dolphin drone from scratch, how would you build the wings? That’s the question that Florida State University Assistant Professor of Mathematics Nick Moore posed in a new ...

It’s the same math that explains how, under the right conditions, the atmosphere above a barren plain can produce a roiling ...

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News of a subtle quadratic equation breakthrough has brought algebra forward from the very back of many people’s minds, and algebra is always part of the “when will I ever use this?” rubric people use ...