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How Bees, Beer Cans and Data Solve the Same Packing Problem
The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...
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How the Rubin Observatory Will Reinvent Astronomy
IEEE Spectrum takes you inside the most advanced sky-mapping instrument ever built—and reveals its stunning first images ...
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Harvey Mackay: Everything Begins With an Idea
In 1930, a Hungarian inventor named Laszlo Jozsef Biro saw some children playing with balls in the water. Then World War II erupted, and the two brothers emigrated to Argentina and founded a company ...