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Welcome to a place where geometry meets dread. In Save The Shapes, you’ll wander through a bizarre little house, uncovering its secrets room by room. The shapes that live here are vanishing one by one ...

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In 1986 Belgian mathematician Jean Bourgain posed a seemingly simple question that continued to puzzle researchers for decades. No matter how you deform a convex shape—consider shaping a ball of clay ...

We all know that ice chills and dilutes our drinks, but let’s take a scientific look at how it can affect taste and texture. Camper English is a San Francisco-based cocktails and spirits writer and ...