Snakes rely on the frictional properties of their scales to slither, a new study suggests. The work could explain how snakes move across bare terrain...
Chaos Theory Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili In mathematics, chaos theory describes the behavior of certain dynamical systems – that is, systems whose states...
Turning a Sphere Inside Out Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili Since its discovery by Stephen Smale in 1958, Smale’s paradox has baffled more than a few mathematicians’ minds...
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 - 12:47:53 - Anuradha Menon
U.S. President Barack Obama was sworn in on Tuesday in Washington. But the number of people who braved the frigid D.C. weather to watch the historic...
NASA eClips Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 - Janice Karin The National Aeronautics and Space Agency is posting a variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)...
Saturday, October 11th, 2008 - 12:25:17 - Anuradha Menon
Stanford University and the American Institute of Mathematics, Soundararajan announced that he and Roman Holowinsky have proven a significant version...
