Geometry

"Give me a qubit for long enough and a probe in which to measure it, and I shall extract the geometry of our world."

Some agree. Others are far from convinced.

The future of mechanical metamaterials demands interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation, say researchers from MIT's Portela Lab.

Rune Aero is using Nvidia GPUs to cut virtual wind tunnel costs by 80%, bringing down costs of developing airplanes.

The Arch is obvious, but what other public buildings made the cut?

A trio of triangle teasers

Tests show that RTX Mega Geometry, a new Nvidia technology recently added to Alan Wake 2, increases framerates and improves image quality in heavily ray-traced scenes. Although...

The new technique could produce materials for use in helicopters, airplanes and spacecraft.

Reflecting on the strength of past public education and the need to refocus on timeless basics for today's students.

Part 1 of a sporadic series about wrongness

Earth planning date: Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024 We planned two very full sols today! The sol 4369 drive completed successfully, and the rover was in a stable enough position that we could unstow the arm — something we don't take for granted in the exceedingly rocky terrain of the sulfate unit! Today the team decided […]

Finding a perfect sphere is actually pretty difficult

'Hurricanes of light' could future-proof the internet.

A decade after the discovery of the "amplituhedron," physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the standard picture of how particles move.

The "infinite monkey theorem" suggests that if you gave a monkey an infinite amount of time to randomly hit keys on a typewriter, it would eventually produce the complete works…

People with MIT ties who received honors from the American Physical Society for 2024-25 include two MIT faculty, a graduate student, and 10 additional alumni. Four faculty, one senior researcher, and seven alumni were named APS Fellows.

Students who made math history when they were in high school have now published new ways of proving the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry.

A whirlwind tour of the history of our system of vector algebra — including applications from art, science, and programming — leading to a plea that we trade...

Glass materials are widely used in optical and optoelectronic devices due to their low cost and excellent mechanical and optical properties. Among them, glass concave/convex linear structures with feature sizes ranging from several micrometers to hundreds of micrometers find intensive applications.

Mathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century ago