Scientists at Fudan University, Peking University, and the Shanghai Academy of AI for Science ...

Explaining the complex structure of tropical forests is one of the great challenges in ecology. An issue of special interest is the distribution of different sizes of trees, something which is of ...

Mathematicians achieve a milestone in verifying the sphere-packing problem solution using Lean, enhancing proof reliability and formalisation efforts.

Every grocer knows the best way to stack oranges into a bag in order to maximize the available space. But the mathematical explanation for this optimal packing of spheres into a confined space is ...

Theoretical physicist Moumita Maiti and colleagues at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India, have now implemented an algorithm for analysing void space in ...

In 1611 German mathematician Johannes Kepler made a conjecture about the densest way to stack oranges or other spheres with a minimum of space between them. It seemed nothing could beat the standard ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Earlier this year, Maryna Viazovska showed ...

This news release is available in German. Explaining the complex structure of tropical forests is one of the great challenges in ecology. An issue of special interest is the distribution of different ...