In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

The key to making a successful product is to identify a problem and then offer to solve it. But what happens when no problems remain? Then you have to create one. Or three. At its “Awe Dropping” event ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Microsoft's first update for Windows 11 in 2026 has already caused two major issues that saw some users unable to fully shutdown their PCs or sign-in into a device when using Remote Desktop. These are ...