A man is scrambling to find a spherical egg that can be placed inside his bespoke spherical egg cup. Simon Balch, 49, was inspired to make what he believed to be the first spherical egg cup after ...

Sektori is a blistering kaleidoscopic nightmare. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sektori is a twin-stick developed by former ...

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

A hidden quantum geometry that distorts electron paths has finally been observed in real materials. This “quantum metric,” once thought purely theoretical, may revolutionize electronics, ...

CRISPR has the power to correct genetic mutations, but current delivery methods are either unsafe or inefficient, keeping the technology from reaching its full medical potential. With the power to ...

The results were the prototypes RoboBall II and RoboBall III that are designed to explore how such spherical robots could be used to explore rough terrain and craters on the Moon. RoboBall II is ...

Dr. Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University, founder of Equal Opportunity Ventures and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Call it MAG: mutually assured gerrymandering. First ...

In a universe governed by turbulence and chaos, perfection is rarely more than a mathematical ideal. Yet astronomers are puzzling over a newfound object that seems to defy that rule: a glowing, nearly ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an object is flat with a ...