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

Each week, Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week we look at how to use geometric shapes in your home’s decor.

How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...

Nature is home to perfectly formed shapes and vibrant colors. When seen up close, snowflakes have incredibly perfect geometric shapes. Circles are found in tree stumps and oceans, while straight lines ...

Scientists have just defined a new shape called the scutoid (SCOO-toid) while studying epithelial cells, the building blocks of embryos that eventually end up forming our skin and lining our organs ...

Through modeling and experiments, researchers uncover a previously undescribed shape -- they call a 'scutoid' -- adopted by packed epithelial cells during embryonic development; discovery could lead ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. “Girls can’t do Euclid: can they, sir?” “The Mill on the Floss” contains one of George Eliot’s ...