The Earth’s orbit around the Sun is slightly elliptical, causing our planet’s distance from the Sun to change throughout the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Stephen Hawking is best known for thinking about time, space, and those teratoid trash mashers ...

A common refrain for students in a math class is “when are we ever gonna need this?” Real World Math is a site that tries to put math skills into real-world situations to help them feel more useful to ...

I have long believed Google Earth is an excellent platform for education. Recently, I discovered a new web site called RealWorldMath.org, which uses Google Earth as a platform for teaching basic math ...

Google has pushed out what it says is Google Earth’s “biggest update since 2017” with a new 3D time-lapse feature. Entering the new “Timelapse” mode of Google Earth will let you fly around the virtual ...

Mathematicians say that they have solved a major, decades-old problem in geometry: how to reconstruct the inner structure of a mystery object ‘X’ from knowing only how fast waves travel between any ...