How long is a country’s border? That’s the seemingly simple question mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson asked himself more than 75 years ago. The thing that puzzled him was that the length of the ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- What do mountains, broccoli and the stock market have in common? The answer to that question may best be explained by fractals, the branch of geometry that explains irregular shapes ...

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Quantum physics is too weird for many people to understand, and part of the weirdness is due to some of its counter-intuitive features. For example, many quantum phenomena are bound by Heisenberg’s ...

It’s virtually impossible to determine the exact length of a natural coastline. The problem is of knowing where to stop—or if a stopping point even exists. To completely measure the coastline, one ...

ONLY rarely does the dry theorising of mathematicians strike a chord with the public. Most people have heard of Einstein and his famous equation, E=mc 2, or of Isaac Newton and his apochryphal falling ...

Video feedback occurs whenever a video camera is directed at a screen displaying the image currently being recorded by the camera. It can be observed in everyday situations, for example at sporting ...