Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this ...

Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. Later, ...

Mathematician Mikhail Ganzhinov found new records for kissing numbers in 10, 11, and 14 dimensions, proving human insight can ...

To see how one cube can pass through another, imagine holding a cube over a table and examining its shadow (assuming it’s ...

Artists aren’t immune to the strip’s allure. M.C. Escher, the famed graphic artist, incorporated the Möbius Strip in his ...

Contributing Writer for The Prospect Leia Pei talks to student designer Vivian Chang ’28 about the role of fashion in the ...

For many people, the rise of artificial intelligence–generated images has sparked anxiety—about misinformation, deepfakes and ...

Creating mandalas are the combination of art and mathematics and I use geometric tools, such as compass, protractor and ruler ...

Madonna Yoder ’17 studied rocks at MIT. But her passion is for paper—with no scissors. Today, she’s a tessellation expert who ...

Carmakers made cars blind, then sold us cameras to see again. The A-pillar grew fat, and visibility vanished behind 'safety' ...

In 2008, Pietro Perona , Caltech's Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering, was on sabbatical in Italy, enjoying a cappuccino in a ...