The ancient Egyptians took a number of measures to safeguard the pyramids. But did they ever resort to booby traps? The answer, Egyptologists told Live Science, is an emphatic no. "No, they didn't use ...

In this deep dive into the Great Pyramid’s design, viewers explore how the ancient structure encodes complex mathematical concepts like pi and the golden ratio. Even more stunning is the discovery ...

Rectangular prisms are polygons with an two identical rectangle end sections and four identical rectangular faces along the length. When the faces of the prism are all at right-angles to each other, ...

The pyramids of Egypt are history’s ultimate “wait, that can’t be real” achievements. These ancient wonders were built thousands of years ago, yet they remain taller, heavier, and way more mysterious ...

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. In 360 BCE, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an ...

A troubling math problem that led to a "heated conversation" among one fifth-grader's family has sparked similar debate on social media. Math differs from other subjects in that the answers students ...

As the debate over what lies beneath Egypt's Giza pyramids continues, the scientists at the center of the dispute have shared new details they believe will silence critics. The row began when Italian ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Throughout the 3,00,000 years of human existence on earth, demographers estimate that approximately 108 billion people have lived so far. Remarkably, until 1804, the global population never exceeded 1 ...

we'll be exploring the volumes of rectangular pyramids today with cubes and rectangular prisms this is a cube all the sides are the same length to find the volume of a cube I can multiply the length ...

Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games column in Scientific American fascinated and mystified readers for decades—and his legacy continues to bring mathematicians, artists and puzzlers together. Gardner ...