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Scientists used Jacob’s Staff during the Renaissance to find heights and distances, using trigonometry. It was a forerunner to the sextant.

Is Santa’s frantic dash around the world each Christmas Eve, even possible?

What’s the connection between verbs, math and hip hop?

Students in Ajab village, India, enjoying a math lesson via Web conference from the US.

How can we enjoy music while traveling on noisy public transport? What is the math behind noise canceling headphones?

Here’s a neat mathematically-generated Halloween pumpkin, developed using Mathematica. You can manipulate it using the supplied CDF document.

This is a bit of light relief – hexagons to music.

This is the story how an Archimedes manuscript was recovered from a document that was erased, cut up, written on and painted over.

How can we use math to save collapsing fish stocks? Mathematical modeling is the key.

Does religion have an impact on human fertility?