In the Pythagorean theorem episode of NBC Learn's "The Science of NFL Football," you see that a defender in the middle of the field must take the proper angle of pursuit to catch a ball-carrier making ...

Intuitively, the shortest distance between two points is on the straight line joining the two points. But this is true only if one is travelling on a plane surface. In fact, it depends on the shape of ...

When it comes to driving, “short” has two possible meanings: a) distance and b) time. Indeed, the shortest distance between Point A and Point B might be not be the shortest distance in terms of time ...