Popular mechanics: the mystery of the cork stopper
Cover of 'Popular Mechanics' Magazine.Last week's car stuck in the mud has activated the ingenuity of our astute readers, who ...
Tag: Science for the 21st century
sunk in the mud
Isosceles triangles are usually represented with the different side as the base, so that their axial symmetry is more evident. ...
Only 8% of Spaniards consider Ramón y Cajal one of the three most important scientists in history
A little over a month ago, a public television program chose the neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal as the best ...
Nostalgia for the present and the scientific story in the novels of Paul Auster
in the novel David Copperfield, the writer Charles Dickens tells us about that experience common to humans where what we ...
Combinatorial designs
The second stanza of a sestina, as we saw last week, rearranges the endings of the six verses from ABCDEF ...
The tower and the triangle
Sierpinski triangle.Encyclopaedia Britannica (Universal Images Group via Getty Images)In previous weeks we have seen the surprising relationship of the Tower ...
The tower and the hypercube
In a trivial tower of Hanoi with two discs, A and B, as we saw last week, the sequence of ...
The tower, the cube and the board
The Tower of Hanoi is a popular puzzle devised by French mathematician Édouard Lucas at the end of the 19th ...
ANYmal, a four-legged robot that replaces people in dangerous environments
It's called ANYmal and, as its name suggests, it works as if it were. It is a robot that has ...
The work that changed fluid dynamics turns 100 years old
The British mathematician Geoffrey Taylor.Alamy Stock PhotoIn 1923 it was published Stability of a viscous liquid contained between two rotating ...
