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NYU Physicists Make Room for Oddballs

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 - 12:59:43 - Anuradha Menon

Here's a question. How many gumballs of different sizes can fit in one of those containers at the mall so as to reward a well-spent quarter? It's...

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...

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NASA Finds the Sun is Not a Perfect Sphere

Monday, October 6th, 2008 - 12:31:55 - Anuradha Menon

Scientists using NASA’s RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision. They find that it is not a perfect...

A Spherical Camera Sensor
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 - Roni Barr
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have recently built a spherical camera that follows the form...