Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

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

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Fano varieties are known as the basic “atomic structure” of geometry, but are notoriously difficult to ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...

Last spring, mathematician Henry Segerman found a peculiar post on Facebook. It was by a programmer who had could not conjure mental images---a condition called aphantasia. Segerman immediately ...