geometry

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The team also explored nonlinear optical effects by adjusting the cavity geometry so that the resonance shifted into the near-infrared range.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

“I wasn’t that crazy about algebra, and I did not fully master it, but geometry was something that just came naturally to me,” she wrote in a 2020 memoir, “It Began With a Dream.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Roxana Bujack, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, led a team that applied geometry to precisely describe how we experience hue, saturation and lightness.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Riemann merged projective geometry with the complex numbers, and all of a sudden lines became circles, circles became lines, and zero and infinity became the poles on a globe full of numbers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife