Tigers magic number update: When can Detroit clinch AL Central after disastrous sweep?

Through Thursday, the Tigers' magic number to clinch the division is seven over the Cleveland Guardians (78-71). That's the same as it was entering the week. To eliminate the Kansas City Royals, who ...

Celestial mechanics: Analytical model reveals true cause of orbit bifurcations near Lagrange points

Advanced space travel relies on a fundamental understanding of the restricted three-body problem (RTBP), in which one of the ...

A scalable and accurate tool to characterize entanglement in quantum processors

Quantum computers, computing systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could soon outperform ...
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Fifteen Questions: Curtis T. McMullen on Shared Truths, Unsolved Problems, and How to Illustrate Infinity

The Cabot Professor of Mathematics sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss life lessons from mathematics, the challenges of ...

This is the biggest sofa you can fit around a corner, according to a mathematician

The question seeks to find a maximum value for the area of a sofa that can slide around a 90-degree corner in a corridor of a ...

Jon Singleton lifts Astros past Los Angeles Angels as Houston's magic number to clinch division is 5

On the same night Shohei Ohtani invented the 50/50 club and then kept going to 51/51, his former team mustered just one run and continued to wallow at the bottom of the American League West standings ...