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Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

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A ‘perfect storm’ of heatwaves, drought and poor forest management has burnt 232,000 hectares of European land so far this year, experts warn. An area almost the size of Luxembourg has been burnt by ...

Tesla's new robotaxi geofence in Austin is creating a buzz for having a phallic shape. The new geofence cuts across that of Waymo's and is larger by a few square miles. Analysts view the geofence ...

Depending on your perspective, the map outline of Tesla Inc.’s expanded robotaxi service area in Austin could represent many things. According to the EV maker, it’s an upside-down version of the ...

Some 460 million metric tons of plastic are produced globally each year, out of which a staggering 91% of plastic waste is never recycled—with 12% incinerated and 79% left to end up in landfills and ...

When most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier-sounding rhombus or trapezoid. But to mathematicians, shapes encompass a vast universe of surprising ...