There are at least two triangles in most airplanes, each right above a window on each side of the cabin and lined up with the ...

Once upon a time, about 13.8 billion years ago, our universe sprang from a quantum speck, ballooning to one million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion times its initial volume (by ...

Named for Plato, who theorized that the classical elements were made of these regular polyhedrons, three of the Platonic solids are composed of equilateral triangles: the tetrahedron, octahedron, and ...

Time for another brain teaser. How many triangles do you see here? Doctor ASKY posted the image above for fellow brainiacs to chew on. See if you can figure it out. We’ll wait. Ready? So, as you can ...

Do you think there’s a triangle whose angles measure 41, 76 and 63 degrees? At first, answering this may seem easy. From geometry class we know that the sum of the measures of the interior angles of a ...

What does connect-the-dots have to do with watching a Pixar film? More than you might think. A connect-the-dots page starts with nothing but some labelled points. As each dot is joined to the next, ...

Counting will get you nowhere. Try a little combinatorics instead. By Kenneth Chang A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a viral math problem — 8÷2(2+2) = ? — that drew the disdain of many ...

Love triangles are far from a new narrative device, but they’ve taken a noticeably fresh form in 2024. Before this year, the trope was most famous for its prevalence in teen dramas: Jeremiah and ...

Ah, love triangles—is there anything more deliciously excruciating to watch onscreen? Even America’s first full-length film, an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, featured the age-old ...

At the beginning of the year, Nanoleaf unveiled its new Shapes line, which features interconnected wall-mounted light panels in different shapes that display a rainbow of shifting colors. The Hexagon ...

A red triangle was once a common sight at Nazi concentration camps, a part of history now thrust into the national spotlight by a banned political campaign ad. Facebook moved Thursday to remove ads ...