Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

Researchers uncover geometric principles governing how particles self-assemble, solving a long-standing challenge in ...

The noses of many mammals, such as dogs, ferrets and cows, feature grooves forming a multitude of polygons. A team has analyzed in detail how these patterns form in the embryo using 3D imaging ...

At the intersection of mathematics and nature, scientists have found intriguing and often beautiful designs. Pinecone scales ...

Fractal geometry is a field of math born in the 1970s and mainly developed by Benoit Mandelbrot. If you’ve already heard of fractals, you’ve probably seen the picture above. It’s called the Mandelbrot ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A massive feature on the moon formed due to lunar rifts, in a surprise revision to earlier ...

We've got circles, squares, triangles and all the 'gons — but, Spanish scientists say we're missing one: the scutoid. Researchers from the University of Seville found these "twisted prisms" in nature, ...

Circles, triangles and squares. One of the first things we learn as children are basic geometric shapes. And they stay with us throughout our lives. Maybe it’s that sense of familiarity that makes ...