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Sphere packing and crystallization involve the study of how identical particles arrange themselves in space under pairwise interactions, with sphere packing focusing on the densest arrangement of ...

In 2016, a mathematician quietly solved a problem that had remained open since the time of Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler. Her name is Maryna Viazovska. The problem is known as the sphere packing ...

The Sphere, the Las Vegas-based orb that Madison Square Garden boss James Dolan spent $2.3 billion to build, is now the world’s highest-grossing entertainment venue — defying initial doomsday ...

As the chords in “Sigma Oasis” reverberated last Saturday night, it felt to 17,600 Phish fans like they were inside an egg. The shell cracked, and they were birds hatching and taking flight. They were ...

We spend a lot of time thinking about the difficult people in our lives—the friend who can't take feedback, the partner who always has to be right, the coworker who turns everything into a fight. But ...

In broad daylight on April 14, a human climbed the most prominent feature of the Las Vegas skyline: the 366-foot-tall, $2.3 billion Sphere. A helicopter hovering over the state-of-the-art ...

It was during “Run Like an Antelope” when the giant guy in the Godsmack shirt behind me finally lost his shit. Those of us sitting near him at Night Three of Phish’s nine-show, three-weekend run at ...

(NEXSTAR) – The Las Vegas Sphere is just the first of many round, bulbous entertainment venues that the venue’s operators are hoping to open. The first Sphere, located near the Venetian Resort off the ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.